On 9/28/05, Andrew Conkling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should probably be installing the python scripts to site-packages, > e.g. via distutils. That's the right place for Python stuff, but I'm > not sure about the rest. > > http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/doc/
That's not nessecarilly true - site-packages is for python _modules_. If it is a series of stand-alone applications they do not belong in site-packages. > On 9/28/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the *right* place to install an application that is basically just a > > directory full of python scripts and such... An example app would be > > shedskin > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=2254 . Hmmm, I don't have time to build and look into it - can you give me the filelist from makepkg (just email the text, it can't be that much). For the most part, everything should be under /usr, with binaries in bin and data in share/<pkgname> - I'd like to see a list of what you're installing to better diagnose. > > I am currently dumping the whole thing into /opt/$pkgname but it seems like > > an > > abuse of /opt. Would /usr/share/$pkgname be better? Or is somewhere else > > more appropriate? I personally feel /opt is overused. /opt, to me, is for very large piles of related stuff. kde, gnome, and the mozilla suite should go there, but something like bittorrent (which was in /opt a while back) doesn't belong there - it's only 3 or 4 executables and some python site-packages. - phrak - _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
