[Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 54, Issue 57 (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Jan 16 00:17:11 CET 2008

Oleg Broytmann writes:

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 06:31:42AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

I think both for UI reasons (given above) and for API reasons (given by others) there should be a separate ~/SOMETHING/{bin,etc,lib,share} hierarchy for user-specific packaged contents. I like ~/.local a little better than ~/local, but both work for me.

Having ~/.python allows me remove it with just one command. It's harder to clear ~/.local/{bin,lib} without affecting whatever I want to preserve there.

No, it shouldn't be. Part of the implementation should be a way for user-specific packages to uninstall themselves. It's also not clear to me how you can "just remove" ~/.python if there is more than one package installed there.

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