Bug 266761

Summary:	python-setuptools installs site.py, conflict?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Neal Becker <ndbecker2>
Component:	python-setuptools	Assignee:	Konstantin Ryabitsev <icon>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Neal Becker 2007-08-30 12:05:14 UTC

Description of problem:

On x86_64, python-setuptools installs:
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/site.py

Doesn't this conflict with:
/usr/lib64/python2.5/site.py?
 rpm -qf /usr/lib64/python2.5/site.py
python-2.5-12.fc7

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Comment 1 Toshio Ernie Kuratomi 2007-08-31 15:58:07 UTC

I believe this is by design although this:
  http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/Python25

says that site.py moved to site-patch.py.  Hmm...

Comment 2 Toshio Ernie Kuratomi 2007-09-05 19:44:13 UTC

Okay.  It looks like what happens is that setuptools includes site.py as
site-patch.py.  It then proceeds to install site.py for any package which
installs an egg.  This includes setuptools itself; thus the site.py installation.

setuptools needs to install this site.py file because it relies on using .pth
files to add eggs into the path before site-packages (python's site.py only
allows appending to the path.)

Neal, does the setuptools site.py actually break anything?

Comment 3 Toshio Ernie Kuratomi 2008-05-07 22:53:34 UTC

Closing bug as this is by design.  If it causes problemswe can revisit.