https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658604 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658604#c4 --- Comment #4 from Jan Matejek <jmatejek@novell.com> 2010-12-10 16:12:45 UTC --- yeah, well, i don't like to deviate from defaults either, but the fact is that those defaults are not very good in the first place. i mean, all major distros still need to patch python to learn about /usr/lib64, because upstream still hasn't figured out how to do it on their side. same thing with separating purelib and platlib for noarch-ness. it still messes up quite a number of packages that don't expect that purelib and platlib can be two different places. this /usr/local stuff is minor compared to that, but as long as we're changing the defaults anyway, we can as well do this properly (and exercise the new install path configuration in the process) also, if you aren't watching it already, i can highly recommend python's distutils-sig mailing list. they are doing very neat things with distutils -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.