nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom fred drake wrote may 3 2008 751 iybzpoboxcom wrote fred asked prefix flag voting dont really care default long give way differently whats interesting ones commented note preferred approach would theres default location would specified explicitly whether command line distutils configuration doesnt matter explicitness required thought christian said something defeating one main points pep allow peruser installation modules work nonadministrators may christian may directly response im pretty sure read somewhere thread anyway peruser sitepackages directly works standard behaviour python installation provide access peruser packages without requiring additional action part user couple paragraphs pep may also interest security reasons user site directory added syspath effective user id group id equal process uid gid 9 additional barrier code injection suid apps however python suid scripts must always use e option users sneak code user site directory suppressed new option environment variable pythonnousersite feature disabled globally setting siteenable_user_site value false must set editing sitepy cant altered sitecustomizepy later python turns feature automatically invocation via sudo like sysadmin disable feature completely sitepy cheers nick nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom brisbane australia httpwwwboredomandlazinessorg _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 195520 1000 python3000 pythondev reminder last alphas next wednesday 07may2008