[Distutils] setuptools --no-dependencies option needed?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 08:33 AM 7/3/2007 -0700, Rob Cakebread wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>use "setup.py easy_install . --no-deps"
>
>We've tried that but it fails because we need to install to our 
>sandbox directory first. Currently we use this, so we need to be 
>able to specify the root with your example:
>
>python setup.py install --root=${D}

I'm confused.  If you're specifying "install --root", you should be 
getting --single-version-externally-managed, which means that 
dependencies shouldn't be being installed in the first place.

What exactly is the problem again?