On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:20:35 +0100, Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote: > Jorgen Grahn wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:46:13 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch > ........ >> Well, if you are thinking about Debian Linux, it's not as much >> "ripping out" as "splitting into a separate package with a non-obvious >> name". Annoying at times, but hardly an atrocity.
> so where is the official place for user installed stuff on > ubuntu/debian ie will > there be dist-packages and site-packages. I don't know, but I know Debian has a group of people working out how to package Python and software written in Python. Those guys have a home page somewhere at debian.org -- there should be information there, and/or under /usr/share/doc/python* on your system. Another answer is "let distutils do its job and do not worry", but sometimes you need to know the rules and the reasons ... /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list