Comment 4 for bug 362570

> you should not install into /usr/lib/python2.6 yourself. this has the potential to override system compnents.

Indeed, to avoid this I was used to set the prefix to /usr/local and I recommended this also when giving instructions for installing a module - but this recommendation fails now on Jaunty, as /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages is not in the sys.path anymore.

> see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027439.html

I see the renaming to dist-packages is pretty useful. To be sure here: /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages is reserved for custom Python installations and will not be part of the default sys.path anymore?