RFC: default python installlation directories

[Jan Rękorajski]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Jacek Konieczny <jajcus at jajcus.net> wrote:
> On 2015-11-29 23:30, Jan Rękorajski wrote:
>>>
>>> The change broke icedove/iceweasel build, looks like some virtualenv
>>> paths confusion:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://buildlogs.pld-linux.org//index.php?dist=th&arch=x86_64&ok=0&name=icedove&id=3c8b77d4-5fec-47a0-ae3d-dd2a575890c2&action=tail
>
>
> Yes, I have seen that.
>
>> Actually it broke virtualenv/pip:
>>
>> $ virtualenv xxx
>> New python executable in xxx/bin/python2
>> Not overwriting existing python script xxx/bin/python (you must use
>> xxx/bin/python2)
>
> [...]
>>
>> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/share/python2.7'
>
>
> That is strange. Though, maybe virtualenv overrides sys.prefix and then uses
> that for installation. In such case I would have to change the python patch
> a bit. Does it work in Python 3 correctly? Things are a bit different there.
>
> I will investigate this further in the evening.

A food for thought - what about dropping PLD specific hack with with
lib<->share split?
It constantly gives us grief with virtualenv.

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