Re: /usr/local is loved by Debian Python people?

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 22:35 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > WHY Debian's installation of Python decided to diverge from a common > behavior on other distributions: Yaroslav. I think you will find the answer here: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ I have a slightly different problem with perl. >

Re: /usr/local is loved by Debian Python people?

Hi Ben, Thank you for your rapid reply! > > WHY Debian's installation of Python decided to diverge from a common > > behavior on other distributions: > > why in a hackish site.py those /usr/local paths are added? > I don't know what “hackish” means here. I meant to say "hackish fashion" I guess

Re: /usr/local is loved by Debian Python people?

Yaroslav Halchenko writes: > WHY Debian's installation of Python decided to diverge from a common > behavior on other distributions: > > why in a hackish site.py those /usr/local paths are added? I don't know what “hackish” means here. I'll assume you are asking only “why are the ‘/usr/local/f

/usr/local is loved by Debian Python people?

Hi to all Debian Python-ers, I know that it is written policy (not as strong as DFSG, nor Debian policy but still a policy) I know that it has been such way for a while by now and not too many people raised concern to cause any action I know that not too many of regular users are hurt but I ca

Re: RFS: rednotebook (NEW)

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 08:48:59PM +0100, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Jonathan Wiltshire, 2009-01-29] > > > * it's Python app. - consider installing it to private directory (f.e. > > > /usr/share/rednotebook) Ok, that makes more sense, done. Also imported a new upstream release, which is based on

Re: Emacs python-mode confusion

Just a quick update -- I've stepped in the shoes of python-mode package Debian maintainer and uploaded (today) fresh upstream version (5.1.0). Upstream changes + my fixes addressed 8 open bug reports against python-mode. So now user's experience should improve considerably ;-) Ipython + python-mod