Re: [fink-core] System Python modules.

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

On 2/10/12 8:43 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> On 8/02/12 20:21, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> []
>>> Should we add %p/Library to the list of legal directories within
>>> the Fink file hierarchy, for packages that build against the
>>> system's toolkits?  (I could envision %p/Library/Python,
>>> %p/Library/Tcl, ...)
> []
>> Anyway, it'd be nice to come to a consensus here.  My understanding is
>> that pil-systempythonxy can break gildas at runtime, because the
>> latter also relies on a PYTHONPATH setting.
> 
> I have now corrected the pil-systempython package for 10.7 so that it
> doesn't erase previously set PYTHONPATH. When I made that package some 3
> years ago, I meant to start this discussion about %p/Library. I also
> meant to use the Runtimevars setting only temporarily, having checked
> that at that time no other package used the PYTHONPATH env variable. As
> it sometimes happens, I got sidetracked :-(
> 

Totally understandable.
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