Can I build PEX with system wide site-packages?

[kamilchm]

I build an app for Linux that uses Python gobject bindings provided by my system (Debian in my case). It's in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages.
When I start pex with --inherit-path it prints:

Scrubbing from site-packages: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

When I try to import gobject i get:

>>> import gobject
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named gobject

I want to distribute my app as a deb and resolve system wide dependencies when installing it by dpkg.
Is there any way I can use system provided lib in my PEX?

[kamilchm]

Digging deeper I found:

pex: PYTHONPATH contains:
pex:     /tmp/tmpDrkLUE/.bootstrap
pex:     /tmp/tmpDrkLUE
pex:     /usr/lib/python2.7
pex:     /usr/lib/python2.7/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu
pex:     /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk
pex:   * /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old
pex:     /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload
pex:     /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PILcompat
pex:     /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gst-0.10
pex:     /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0
pex:     /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7
pex:   * - paths that do not exist or will be imported via zipimport

I can import gtk that lives in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.pyc but I can't do it with gobject from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/__init__.pyc.

[jsirois]

Thanks for attempting a fix. Please accept our apologies for the epically long delay in responding! This has since been fixed a few times, the latest in #449.