From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hartmut Goebel Subject: Re: PYTHONPATH issue analysis - part 3 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:47:49 +0100 Message-ID: <9f301fa1-3fc3-6d6f-91ff-68b5d8d4bfa6@crazy-compilers.com> References: <87371tqbyb.fsf@elephly.net> <20180223165953.GA6088@thebird.nl> <871sgn1xhf.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44178) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evrm0-00065M-Pp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:47:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evrlx-0000V8-OL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:47:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <871sgn1xhf.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=c3=a8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Am 13.03.2018 um 22:23 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s: > I may well have missed something (sorry about that!), but what are =E2=80= =9Cthe > problems related to how Guix is using PYTHONPATH=E2=80=9D? In short: We are using PYTHONPATH for something it is not meant for: PYTHONPATH is NOT intended (by upstream) for adding site-packages.=C2=A0 PYTHONPATH elements are added in front of essential packages, while site-packages are added behind. Dor details please see part 1 of my analysis. --=20 Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |