serious conflicts between python pks installed via yum vs pip

[Adam Jackson]

On 2/10/12 11:32 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> I've seen this repeatedly, with often very serious consequences (complete
> failure of update from f15->f16 for example).
>
> Between packages installed via pip, and packages installed via yum, some
> packages seem to switch between
>
> e.g.,
> numpy-1.6.1-py2.7.egg-info
>
> being installed as a file and the same name being installed as a directory.
> This can cause subsequent rpm update (via cpio) to abort.
>
> I don't know what's causing this, but IMO this is a serious problem.

Doctor, it hurts when I do this.

- ajax