Yo Richard! On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:47:02 -0600 Richard Laager <rlaa...@wiktel.com> wrote:
> On 01/15/2018 03:39 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > > My understanding is that /usr/local/lib*/python*/dist-packages > > should NEVER exit. dist-packages is only for Debian distro use, and > > the distro stuff is always in /usr, not /usr/local/ > > This is incorrect. Weird. Isn't distro stuff supposed to ONLY go in /usr, not in /usr/local? > I think you're basing a lot of this on the name "dist-packages". But > dist-packages is simply a renaming of site-packages. The purpose of > this renaming "is to reduce conflict between the system Python, and > any from-source Python build you might install manually." System python is always in /usr,so how can there be a /usr/local dist-packages? > More importantly, the same document explicitly says, "Note that > /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages is in sys.path so that modules > not installed from Debian packages can still be accessed by the system > Python." > > -- https://wiki.debian.org/Python#Deviations_from_upstream Weird. If not installed from Debian packages that is in conflict to dist-packages being system only? If we install a local copy of NTPsec it is not a distro package, so should not be in dist-packages. All seems contradictory to me... Maybe use /usr/local dist-packages if you copy files from another host, from /usr dist-packages? What other packages use /usr/local dist-packages? RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703 g...@rellim.com Tel:+1 541 382 8588 Veritas liberabit vos. -- Quid est veritas? "If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it." - Lord Kelvin
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