Overriding site-wide plugins with user-installed plugins

[Martin Pool]

Jonathan Lange wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Recently I had cause to override the site install of the PQM plugin
> with a home directory install of the latest development code.
> 
> It turns out that Bazaar won't let me do that.
> bzrlib.plugin.set_plugins_path() explicitly ensures that
> site-installed plugins trump user-installed plugins. To work around,
> I've had to abuse my root privileges and move the plugin from
> site-packages.
> 
>> From my perspective, this is clearly a bug. However, it has been
> suggested that the world may be more complex than I might first think.

It's not intentional as far as I know.  You could file a bug or send a
patch.

-- 
Martin