[Python-Dev] PEP 370, open questions (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Thu Jan 17 22:05:02 CET 2008

Ronald Oussoren wrote:

Ah, so ~/.local is "just" a per-user variation on /usr/local? I didn't even know of that convention before this thread started, I tend to use ~/local (without dot) instead.

I assume ~/.local was first introduced by the freedesktop.org people. On my box it's only used for some desktop related apps like ~/.local/share/Trash or XFC4.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec

Contrary to ~/local, the dot local directory doesn't show up, unless the user unhides dot files.

Christian

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