[Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 54, Issue 57

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Oleg Broytmann writes:

 > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 06:31:42AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 > > I think both for UI reasons (given above) and for API reasons (given
 > > by others) there should be a separate ~/SOMETHING/{bin,etc,lib,share}
 > > hierarchy for user-specific packaged contents.  I like ~/.local a
 > > little better than ~/local, but both work for me.
 > 
 >    Having ~/.python allows me remove it with just one command. It's harder
 > to clear ~/.local/{bin,lib} without affecting whatever I want to preserve
 > there.

No, it shouldn't be.  Part of the implementation should be a way for
user-specific packages to uninstall themselves.  It's also not clear
to me how you can "just remove" ~/.python if there is more than one
package installed there.