[Numpy-discussion] NumPy beta release plan

[Robert Kern]

Christian Kristukat wrote:
> Robert Kern <robert.kern <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I believe that Debian recently changed its configuration to default to 
>> /usr/local (for good reason!). Perhaps that is causing what you see.
> 
> I just found out that this is feature/bug of opensuse 10.1. I'm beginning to
> like it but can you tell what you have to do to force it install to /usr/lib?

It's probably a good idea to leave it as-is. OS distributions like to control 
all files in /usr (except /usr/local) and leave /usr/local for sysadmins and users.

But if you need more control:

http://docs.python.org/inst/alt-install-windows.html (ignore the inappropriate 
filename; it talks about alternate installation locations for all platforms)
http://docs.python.org/inst/config-syntax.html

> Btw. (OFF TOPIC) have you noticed that the scipy mailing list is just
> swallowing mails but not spreading them?

No. That could be a problem on our end. Please let Jeff Strunk 
<jstrunk at enthought.com> know about it. If you can provide details like a local 
copy of the email that got sent and swallowed, that would be very good.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco