Ronald Oussoren wrote: > Ah, so ~/.local is "just" a per-user variation on /usr/local? I didn't > even know of that convention before this thread started, I tend to use > ~/local (without dot) instead.
I assume ~/.local was first introduced by the freedesktop.org people. On my box it's only used for some desktop related apps like ~/.local/share/Trash or XFC4. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec Contrary to ~/local, the dot local directory doesn't show up, unless the user unhides dot files. Christian _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
