[Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB)

Jan Claeys lists at janc.be
Fri Dec 1 01:00:15 CET 2006


Op vrijdag 01-12-2006 om 12:44 uur [tijdzone +1300], schreef Greg Ewing:
> With ~/.local, you're hiding the fact that the applications
> or libraries or whatever are even there in the first
> place. You've got all this disk space being used up,
> but no way of seeing where or by what, and no
> obvious way of freeing it up. I think that's bad HCI. 

AFAIK fd.o's use of ~/.local is mainly for things like *.desktop files
(e.g. menu items added or changed by the user).


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Jan Claeys



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