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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100714113153.ga15...@teal.hq.k1024.org
