[Python-Dev] FHS compliance of Python installation (was: versioned .so files for Python 3.2)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Fri Jun 25 02:54:30 CEST 2010


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? :-)

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