Resolution of the library-path mess

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Fred!

On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 19:32:06 -0700 (PDT)
Fred Wright via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote:
> 
> > Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:  
> > > How do you plan that a local NTPsec install from source does not
> > > overwite an NTPsec install from the native OS repositories?  
> >
> > That now will never happen if the /usr/local/lb/python-X.Y
> > directory exists; the install logic will notice that.  
> 
> That of course assumes that if the directory exists, it's in sys.path.
> Perhaps that's a reasonable assumption, though it's hard to be sure.

I would bet that /usr/local//lib/python-X.Y is NOT in the sys.path
no matter what.

RGDS
GARY
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