Re: FHS location for Python libraries as locally-compiled bytecode (was: debhelper 7 and python-central)

2008-05-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 21 mai 2008 à 08:59 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : I don't see that it leads to storing the compiled programs to live under /var/, rather than /usr/ which to my mind is more appropriate for compiled versions of programs installed by the package manager, which don't change except

Re: FHS location for Python libraries as locally-compiled bytecode (was: debhelper 7 and python-central)

2008-05-21 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: At least python-support is not the only package to do that. On my system, the following directories are generated upon package installation and will not change in other situations: FWIW, you forgot /var/lib/dpkg/info (And yes, I've argued before that this

FHS location for Python libraries as locally-compiled bytecode (was: debhelper 7 and python-central)

2008-05-20 Thread Ben Finney
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The python-central approach puts in the same directories files managed by dpkg and files managed by python-central, which means they cannot be sorted out easily, and if you run in a bug like #409390 or #480741, you’re hosed. If anything ever gets