[Distutils] Installing packages using pip

[Greg Ewing]

> On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 08:56:49 +0200, contact at ionelmc.ro wrote:
> 
>>Not sure what exactly was going on but whenever I did that on linux I got
>>the most peculiar segfaults and failures. It is certainly not a safe thing
>>to do, even if linux lets you do it.

Are you sure you were actually unlinking the old file
and creating a new one, rather than overwriting the
existing file? The latter would certainly cause trouble
if you were able to do it.

-- 
Greg