I like it alot! It could also hold package install scripts that aren't really part of the distribution but are necessary for packaging binary distributions. I use this convention for my Solaris/HP (non-python) packages by having a "pkgfiles" directory that installed either under the package directory, or if the package was installed in /usr or /usr/local, it went to /var/pkgfiles/pkg-name. This makes the binary package re- creatable on any system that it's installed on (unlike RPM, these package managers don't require the source). In some cases, I would like to do the same with Python packages, e.g. have the "dist" directory installed under the package installation directory. It's frequently usefull to have access to pre/post install scripts at other times, and they're generally not big enough to be a space concern. Mark Alexander mwa@gate.net