OK, now I get you. It may be tradition, but the trend has been towards avoiding root installs, which by necessity require installation in user directories.
In any case, if you want the more traditional approach, there's always an apt install. On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 12:08 PM Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom Keffer <[email protected]> writes: > > >> I think 'weewx-data' is an artifact of the previous install and would be > >> separate config and state were we starting fresh. > > > > I'm having a hard time decoding what you're trying to say. Can you be > more > > specific? > > In the context of packaging, a package has code and other RO resources, > and then there are config files that according to hier(7) and ancient > tradition from BSD belong in etc. And changeable files that belong in > /var/db or /var/log, which is usually spelled $prefix/var/PKGNAME within > packaging. So the place the skins and weewx.conf goes is etc, which is > different from where the db belongs which is varlike > > pip has its own opinions but that's basically a bug to work around as > the world is not python; all per-language helpers need to play nice with > the larger packaging ecosystem. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/CAPq0zEAW7H9iLQKYY_QCn4%2BF8ZXdDOdU2-PDcpcZAF-%3DQvCFwA%40mail.gmail.com.
