[Python-Dev] bdist_* to stdlib? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Feb 17 23:22:37 CET 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

On 2/16/06, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

/usr/share often is on a different mount; that's the whole rationale for /usr/share. I don't think I've worked at a place where something like that was done for at least 10 years. Isn't this argument outdated?

It still is the rationale for putting things into /usr/share, even though I agree that probably nobody actually does that.

That, in turn, is because nobody is so short of disk space that you really have to share /usr/share across architectures, and because trying to do the sharing still causes problems (e.g. what if the packaging systems of different architectures all decide to put the same files into /usr/share?)

Regards, Martin

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