[Python-ideas] Draft PEP for the regularization of Python install layouts

[Oleg Broytman]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 12:08:22PM -0500, VanL wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2011 5:58 PM, "Jim Jewett" <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is this something that Python even *can* reasonably control,
> > particularly on the various Linux distributions?
> 
> In my experience, the location for the Python environment changes a
> bit, but the internal layout is general consistent with what is set
> out in sysconfig and distutils.command.install. The most unique
> layout I have seen is for Ubuntu, which adds a vendor-packages
> directory.

   Debian 6 "squeeze" added dist-packages for 3rd-party modules
installed via apt/dpkg.

Oleg.
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