On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:46:33PM +0000, Ben Finney wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes: > > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:59:05AM +0000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > What makes you think 'foo.pyc' is /var material? > > > > Oh yes that seems obvious to me. In fact, I'd say it should be > > /var/cache material because: > > + it's not mandatory to have it, python works fine without .pyc, just > > (way) slower (which makes it /something/*cache* material per se). > > It "works fine without it" only in the sense that it has to > re-generate it before the program can run. Much like any compiled form > of a program. > > > + it can be regenerated any time when a python version change (so that > > we can gain new optimizations in how bytecode is built e.g.) which > > makes it rather /var material rather than /usr. > > This property still makes it change only when the packaging system > upgrades or installs software. If it only changes at that time, it > still seems more appropriate for /usr/ than /var/. Well maybe, I must say I've really no hard feelings on the matter, just it looks right that way to me :) -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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