Hey Nicholas!

 NB> So it seems to be Gentoo specific, then.

Could be.  From what I read it sounds like Gentoo made it more complicated than it needed to be.

 NB> making symlinks was a great suggestion, since other distributions
 NB> already seem to be doing that.

I wouldn;t bet the farm on it.  I am hesitant to guess how critical this is to someone's python based package manager.  :::shudder:::  As Yosimite Sam says, "I hates pythons."  :-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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