ubuntu dist-packages

[Robin Becker]

Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:46:13 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch
........
> Well, if you are thinking about Debian Linux, it's not as much
> "ripping out" as "splitting into a separate package with a non-obvious
> name". Annoying at times, but hardly an atrocity.
so where is the official place for user installed stuff on ubuntu/debian ie will 
there be dist-packages and site-packages.
-- 
Robin Becker