From 4b756caf706ee500a8b2fc334dd4d382188d57fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ronny Pfannschmidt Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:33:24 +0100 Subject: document the --user cli flag --HG-- branch : distribute extra : rebase_source : 5d5028ddde7b61624792d6670cd00f57d7ed8646 --- docs/easy_install.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/easy_install.txt b/docs/easy_install.txt index a469bb55..ab008a1d 100644 --- a/docs/easy_install.txt +++ b/docs/easy_install.txt @@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ and Viewing Source Packages`_ below for more info.):: easy_install --editable --build-directory ~/projects SQLObject +**Example 7**. (New in 0.6.11) Install a distribution within your home dir:: + + easy_install --user SQLAlchemy + Easy Install accepts URLs, filenames, PyPI package names (i.e., ``distutils`` "distribution" names), and package+version specifiers. In each case, it will attempt to locate the latest available version that meets your criteria. @@ -716,6 +720,10 @@ Command-Line Options versions of a package, but do not want to reset the version that will be run by scripts that are already installed. +``--user`` (New in 0.6.11) + Use the the user-site-packages as specified in :pep:`370` + instead of the global site-packages. + ``--always-copy, -a`` (New in 0.5a4) Copy all needed distributions to the installation directory, even if they are already present in a directory on sys.path. In older versions of -- cgit v1.2.1