It seems to me that the platform dependent and independent trees of a Python installation are not symetric in some sense: on one side we have: $prefix/include/python$version/ $prefix/lib/python$version/ $prefix/man on the other side $exec_prefix/bin $exec_prefix/include/python$version $exec_prefix/lib/python$version/config $exec_prefix/lib/python$version/lib-dynload $exec_prefix/lib/python$version/site-packages what bothers me is that we do not have that extra level under lib in the platform independent tree. I'd like to have something like: $prefix/lib/python$version/standard/ (equivalent of lib-dynload) $prefix/lib/python$version/packages/ (for paltform independant packages) and these directories should be part of the Python PATH built by default. I am not sure where pur Python packages are supposed to be installed right now ? -Michel