[Georg Brandl, 2010-09-05] > Am 05.09.2010 19:22, schrieb "Martin v. Löwis": > > 2. Why does the PEP recommend installing stuff into /usr/share/pyshared? > > According to the Linux FHS, /usr/share is for Architecture- > > independent data, see > > > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA > > In particular, it's objective is that you can NFS-share it across, > > say, both SPARC Linux and x86 Linux. I believe the PEP would break > > this, as SPARC and x86 executables would override each other. > > Indeed. I think this is probably just an oversight and should be corrected > in the PEP. However, it's the distributions' call anyway.
FYI: in Debian we will use /usr/lib/python3/ or even /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/, as there are many modules with things like: os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', '..', '..', '..', 'share', 'foo') -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645 _______________________________________________ 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