[Python-Dev] FHS compliance of Python installation

[C. Titus Brown]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:25:28PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 25.06.2010 02:54, Ben Finney wrote:
>> James Y Knight<foom at fuhm.net>  writes:
>>
>>> Really, python should store the .py files in /usr/share/python/, the
>>> .so files in /usr/lib/x86_64- linux-gnu/python2.5-debug/, and the .pyc
>>> files in /var/lib/python2.5- debug. But python doesn't work like that.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> So who's going to draft the ???Filesystem Hierarchy Standard compliance???
>> PEP? :-)
>
> This has nothing to do with the FHS.  The FHS talks about data, not code.

Really?  It has some guidelines here for object files, etc., at least as
of 2004.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

A quick scan suggests /usr/lib is the right place to look:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLIBLIBRARIESFORPROGRAMMINGANDPA

cheers,
--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu