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Comment 13 for bug 291262

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Gael Varoquaux (gael-varoquaux) wrote :

Hi,

Thanks to Jean-Baptiste for pointing me out this discussion.

Re /usr and /usr/local, Michael Vogt puts it well: installing to /usr is doomed. But users don't always know it, or even understand the difference. I suggest Ubuntu changes the default configuration of python distutils and setuptools to install to /usr/local. IMHO defaulting to /usr is a bug.