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Not wanting to speak for Alec, but in my opinion the answer is mostly because /usr/local doesn't impinge on a home directory listing, so I don't care that it's visible. Naive users don't go looking around the filestore any more than they poke around in their hidden subdirectories.Alec> FWIW my vote is for ~/.python. ~/.local comes in a distant second Alec> due to non-obviousness and ~/Python is several light years beyond Alec> that.I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree. I find hiding directories which contain executable code extremely non-obvious. Would you prefer /usr/.local to /usr/local? If not, then why prefer ~/.local to ~/local?
If you want it visible, make a visible symbolic link! regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
