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 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I believe this is by design although this: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/Python25 says that site.py moved to site-patch.py. Hmm...
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?
Closing bug as this is by design. If it causes problemswe can revisit.