On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:57:42AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | > That'd be /usr/share (lib is for arch-dependant data, see FHS) | | ... except that the Python policy seems to have bizarre rules about | this. I assume this is because .pyc files are placed in the same | directory as the corresponding .py files and are architecture-dependent.
I don't think it's the .pyc files, AFAIK they're just architecture independent bytecode. I believe it's because some Python modules come with blah.so files which need to live with their corresponding blah.py files, so they can't be put into /usr/share. Cameron.