Re: Documenting Python Debuntuisms
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:56:02AM +0100, Suno Ano wrote:
>
> Barry> We had a report in upstream Python from a user who was trying to
> Barry> find information about dist-packages. He did a Google search and
> Barry> didn't find any definitive official explanation of this
> Barry> Debuntuism. His suggestion was to add a note to the official
> Barry> Python documentation, but that doesn't seem quite right to me.
>
> Yes, that is a common question people have when they want to know how
> exactly things are handled in Debian. It was the same for me so I
> created
>
> http://www.markus-gattol.name/ws/python.html#why_has_debian_dist-packages_directories
... which says: "Summary, if using python ≥ 2.6: apt-installed packages
go in dist-packages, and manually installed modules go in
dist-packages". So it's the same situation as in 2.5, but just
s/site/dist/? I mean, nothing changed?
I don't know if that page is wrong, or the python is wrong, but the
situation seems just a name change, and not actually a split of apt- and
manually-installed packages in two different dirs...
regards,
iustin
Reply to: