On 08/31/2011 01:59 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Craig Finch <cfi...@ieee.org
> <mailto:cfi...@ieee.org>> wrote:
>
>     I figured it out!  I accidentally did something weird.  When I built
>     NumPy and SciPy, I used the --user option to tell distutils to build
>     them in my home directory. I had not realized that --user installs
>     the packages in ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/.  I was
>     assuming they would be installed in ~/lib/python2.7/site-packages,
>     but I didn't notice they were "missing" until just now.  When I
>     reinstalled NumPy and Scipy using the option --prefix=/home/cfinch
>     and then rebuilt matplotlib, everything started working.  I didn't
>     have to rebuild pycairo or pygtk; I just had to get everything in
>     the same location.  This is the first I've heard of installing
>     anything in a .local directory...why is that even an option???
>
>     Thanks for your help!
>
>
> It is a standard directory in linux now.  Started by the freedesktop.org
> <http://freedesktop.org>, I think.  Personally, I prefer it over having
> ~/lib, ~/bin and such cluttering my home directory.
>
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

Aha!  So that's where .config came from, also.  IPython is using it; I 
suppose we should, too.

Eric

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