[Duplicity-talk] Re: 0.4.6: setup.py install with --prefix not working

[Andreas Schildbach]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:

> It turns out not to be a bug after all, just a 'feature' of Python.  The
> following commands will extract, install, and execute duplicity in the
> user's choice of path.
>
> [...]
>
> I am certain this could be implemented in the code, but there are all
> sorts of considerations to make it a general case that would work on all
> the distros and versions we have to handle.

If that's the way Python handles situations like this, I would not stray 
 off this path. Could you just document this in the installation readme?

Many thanks and best regards,

Andreas