Otherwise "entropy" module loading logic was delayed, excluding this
import (which was done early, before entropy_path_loader logic):
from entropy.locks import SimpleFileLock
and it failed when system wide PYTHONPATH is dropped.
There was a comment not to do an early import due to --no-pid-handling.
The comment was added in:
commit 59e5fd737e
Date: Tue Mar 1 13:13:18 2011 +0100
[magneto] fix lock file handling
but then the logic was reworked in:
commit 5d315c70bd
Date: Sun Feb 24 23:34:49 2013 +0100
[entropy.const] drop /var/run/entropy/entropy.lock file and directory handling
and then passing --no-pid-handling (which was unused at this point) from
mangeto file was removed in:
commit 83b8991c95
Date: Wed Feb 27 20:59:14 2013 +0000
[magneto] rewrite systray icons management, improve KDE, GNOME and MATE integration
f4332c76c8