[Python-Dev] FHS compliance of Python installation

[Matthias Klose]

On 26.06.2010 22:30, C. Titus Brown wrote:
> 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

agreed for object files, but
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA
explicitely states "The /usr/share hierarchy is for all read-only architecture 
independent *data* files".