[Python-Dev] PEP: per user site-packages directory (original) (raw)

Kevin Jacobs jacobs@bioinformed.com bioinformed at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 12:57:02 CET 2008

On Jan 15, 2008 6:24 AM, Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:41:47PM +0000, Jon Ribbens wrote: > It makes sense, but personally I have never heard before of ~/.local. > Whereas ~/bin is something I am quite familiar with.

Me too. python-dev is the only place I have heard of ~/.local. I have been using Linux (different distributions), Solaris and FreeBSD for quite a long time (though I have never used GNOME/KDE/etc.)

Never heard of it either, would be completely baffled if caught unawares by it in the wild. Has anyone consulted with the LSB or a cross-platform filesystem layout guide to see what the recommended best-practice is?

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