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authorAndrew Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2013-11-10 23:11:00 (GMT)
committerAndrew Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2013-11-10 23:11:00 (GMT)
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Issue #19544 and Issue #1180: Restore global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in Distutils, accidentally removed in backout of distutils2 changes.
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@@ -239,7 +239,8 @@ tedious and error-prone, so it's usually best to put them in the setup
configuration file, :file:`setup.cfg`\ ---see section :ref:`setup-config`. If
you distribute or package many Python module distributions, you might want to
put options that apply to all of them in your personal Distutils configuration
-file (:file:`~/.pydistutils.cfg`).
+file (:file:`~/.pydistutils.cfg`). If you want to temporarily disable
+this file, you can pass the :option:`--no-user-cfg` option to :file:`setup.py`.
There are three steps to building a binary RPM package, all of which are
handled automatically by the Distutils: