[Nix-dev] Re: python-wrapper or similar

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Nathaniel Griswold <griswold at cs.wisc.edu> writes:

>> Normally all this is automated by ‘buildPythonPackage’, including the
>> creation of wrappers for stand-alone programs.
>
> Except that installing multiple packages with 'buildPythonPackage'
> makes for an unusable site-packages in your profile... anything after
> the first will drop the easy-install.pth and site.py from
> lib/python2.6/site-packages

This is orthogonal: it’s the environment builder that removes
easy-install.pth et al. from the user environment.  This avoids
pointless collisions when installing several Python packages in the
environment.

Thanks,
Ludo’.