Note that this will make it impossible to distribute wheels of your package or to install it into a virtualenv, because those don't have an /etc. So it's mostly only suitable for projects that you use internally under a known and restricted set of deployment options, not for anything distributed on pypi. On Mar 1, 2018 5:01 AM, "Victor Porton" <porton@narod.ru> wrote: How to deal with the files to be placed into /etc or a similar dir? In the previous email I forgot to say I use setuptools not distutils. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig