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  1. Bug #254035
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 254035

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Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (zooko) wrote :

According to http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue17 the bug is "that easy_install does NOT search sys.path for a requirement that is
specified on the command line; it only searches "site" directories for such".

Therefore, any package which has a .egg-info which is not in the "site" directories is probably affected.

Fortunately all such packages can be fixed at once by adding the above-mentioned site-dirs config to the system-wide distutils config file.