can't install kdebase, needs root

[Matt Williams]

On 21 June 2010 22:04, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 21.06.10 21:36:13, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>> Uh, yeah, and it's somewhat ugly too.
>> Can we find a better solution to this ?
>> I think the last time we discussed some python stuff on kde-buildsystem I
>> didn't recognize a real conclusion, I was mostly confused at the end.
>>
>> So, if we install python modules, where should they go by default ?
>
> Well, thats the problem, either they're installed in a way such that
> python finds them (and that usually means installing needs root-rights)
> or the buildsystem obeys the prefix thats set for the project
> (implicitly or by cmake-variable) in which case the user will have to
> tell its python to look in an additional place. Its very similar to
> installing libraries outside a directory thats mentioned in
> /etc/ld.so.conf, you can do that but you'll have to set an envvar at
> least to give the linker a clue where to look. With shared libs on Linux
> you have a bit better way using RPATH/RUNPATH, but that doesn't really
> exist for Python.

Well, as of Python 2.6 you can place Python modules under ~/.local and
Python will find them correctly [1]. So really that should be factored
into the defaults somehow.

-- 
Matt Williams
http://milliams.com

[1] http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html#pep-370-per-user-site-packages-directory