Comment 2 for bug 429383

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Jim Fulton (jim-zope) wrote : Re: [Bug 429383] [NEW] add an option to exclude site-packages

Gary Poster already implemented this. His branch is waiting for my
review. Unfortunately, his branch is rather large, so it is going to
take me a while to get to this. I'm not going to make any other
buildout changes until his branch is merged.

Jim

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Martijn Faassen <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> We need an option in buildout that can be used to run the buildout
> without including site-packages.
>
> With the Grok project we now advise people to create the buildouts
> inside a virtualenv which is installed with --no-site-packages. This to
> avoid the frequent problem that Python library installed by the platform
> conflicts with a Python library that Grok itself wants to install. On
> Mac OS X in particular this problem is guaranteed.
>
> This complicates the installation instructions significantly. buildout
> is so close: buildout is all about controlling the environment, but
> always pulls in site-packages, an uncontrolled area.
>
> ** Affects: zc.buildout
>     Importance: Undecided
>         Status: New
>
> --
> add an option to exclude site-packages
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429383
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Jim Fulton