Paul Wise writes: > On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 6:04 PM Matthias Klose wrote: >> I'd say, there are currently more pressing issues than that, like the Python2 >> removal, or the introduction of Python 3.8. 3.8 also offers a central >> directory >> for bc files, so that's maybe another thing to look at, but not a priority >> now >> from my point of view. > > Agreed re Python 2 etc. Eventually switching to using a central > directory in /var would be nice, right now the .pyc files are dumped > cruftily into /usr subdirs.
But /var is for variable state data, i.e. data that is modified during regular system operation. This isn't the case for *.pyc which follow the same rules as the *.py included directly in the packages. So these files should stay in /usr. (I even think /var/lib/dpkg/info should really be in /usr for similar reasons.) See also http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html for some other reasons why not using /var might be an advantage. Ansgar
