[Python-3000] Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

[Dj Gilcrease]

On Feb 5, 2008 10:24 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> Sure, there are *lots* of ways the user can screw up the system as
> root. Doing a default python install from source is *not* one of them,
> no matter what it does with those symlinks. If you know of a system
> where things are otherwise, please warn me about it now.

Ubuntu will screw up if you login as root and build a newer python
version then 2.2. You wont be able to use it's GUI package installer
and other issues.