Comment 16 for bug 158756

On Apr 2, 2008, at 11:50 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
> The real problem, in this example, is that
> system-installed eggs on ubuntu are installed in such a way that the
> egg "location", the thing that gets added to the path is site-
> packages.

that doesn't only seem to be the case for ubuntu, but anyway, could
you give me a hint on how they're installed the wrong way? or rather,
what would be the correct way of installing them? is this about how
the .pth looks?

>> imho, this is clearly a bug and could be easily resolved the way
>> florian suggested.
>
> I don't agree. The same problem can occur any time you pick up a
> "single-version-externally-managed" package.

makes sense. so the bug's not necessarily in zc.buildout then... :)

> So, I'm +1 on moving site-packages to the end of generated paths.

> This would prevent system packages, including setuptools, from being
> as viral as they are now.

right, i'll see if i can find some time to submit a patch.

> Thanks for being persistent.

thanks for looking into it again.

andi

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