Oleg Broytmann writes:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 06:31:42AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > I think both for UI reasons (given above) and for API reasons (given
> > by others) there should be a separate ~/SOMETHING/{bin,etc,lib,share}
> > hierarchy for user-specific packaged contents. I like ~/.local a
> > little better than ~/local, but both work for me.
>
> Having ~/.python allows me remove it with just one command. It's harder
> to clear ~/.local/{bin,lib} without affecting whatever I want to preserve
> there.
No, it shouldn't be. Part of the implementation should be a way for
user-specific packages to uninstall themselves. It's also not clear
to me how you can "just remove" ~/.python if there is more than one
package installed there.
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