On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 12:44:36PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I'm confused why Fedora Python packages get installed in > /usr/lib/python*/site-packages/. > > Looking at the upstream Python documentation[1] it seems this > directory is reserved for packages installed by the local system > administrator. (Similar to the Perl distinction between > INSTALLDIRS=vendor / INSTALLDIRS=site / INSTALLDIRS=core [2]) > I don't see where the distinction is being made between local system admin and vendor in that document. Could you give a better link or a search term? Also, on an FHS compliant Linux system, the system administrator would not use /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages anyway. They'd use something like /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages. We should, perhaps be arranging for such a directory to be i nthe default path -- if so, probably just need a bug opened against the python package. (Although that will slow pyhton down.... python will then have another directory that it has to search through to find its modules.) > Not directly relevant, but Debian reserves[3] site-packages for the > system administrator, and puts Python packages in its own directory > (/usr/lib/python*/dist-packages). > > Is this a mistake or am I not understanding the distinction? > You're not understanding the distinction but I'm not either... If you read their documentation again you'll see a few things: Debian switches to dist-packages with python2.6; python2.5 and below continues to use site-packages. System admins are actually reserved directories in /usr/local; dist-packages and site-packages has nothing to do with system admins in their guidelines as this directory follows the same rule as the one for packagers (python2.6+ vs python2.5-) In this setup, it seems like Debian is not putting anything in site-packages. Without more information, their use of dist-packages just seems arbitrary and non-standard. -Toshio
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