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

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai at in-nomine.org
Sun Jan 20 18:10:03 CET 2008


-On [20080116 07:15], Oleg Broytmann (phd at phd.pp.ru) wrote:

The site only mentions HOME/.local/share,thereisnoHOME/.local/share, there is no HOME/.local/share,thereisnoHOME/.local/bin at the site.

As was mentioned earlier in the thread. Only $HOME/.local/share was in the Free Desktop specification. The bin is something that got introduced in this thread. It makes sense to stick to hier(7) for this sort of thing. Although the entire concept of a $HOME/.local was new to me as well and is not mandated at all in POSIX or other circles aside from, apparently, the Free Desktop folks.

Pendantic note: ~ is an expansion character, the correct variable to talk about is HOME (see IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 section 2.5.3 and 2.6.1).

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