MacPorts automake and python

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Mar 20, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Adam Mercer <ram at macports.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Jeremy Lavergne
> <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:
>> Isn't this a pythonism, things install to python's site-packages directory?
> 
> The main point is that we don't want random things, outside the
> control of MacPorts, installed in the MacPorts prefix. This is just
> going to lead to people forcing an install, with sudo for example, and
> overwriting something from MacPorts and then leading to breakage.

for perl, there's a 'vendor' directory (where we install stuff) and a 'site' directory (where anything goes). If an end-user installs his/her own perl modules, they end up in the site directory (which is in $prefix).

Of course, things could be much better for perl than the way we're doing things now, so maybe it's not the best example...

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