[Python-Dev] PEP: per user site-packages directory

[Kevin Jacobs <jacobs@bioinformed.com>]

On Jan 15, 2008 6:24 AM, Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:41:47PM +0000, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> > It makes sense, but personally I have never heard before of ~/.local.
> > Whereas ~/bin is something I am quite familiar with.
>
>   Me too. python-dev is the only place I have heard of ~/.local. I have
> been using Linux (different distributions), Solaris and FreeBSD for quite
> a long time (though I have never used GNOME/KDE/etc.)
>


Never heard of it either, would be completely baffled if caught unawares by
it in the wild.  Has anyone consulted with the LSB or a cross-platform
filesystem layout guide to see what the recommended best-practice is?

-Kevin
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