Fedora: FHS vs PYTHONPATH

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Sun, 08 Oct 2017 01:06:13 -0700
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> My reading is that Fedora doesn't support /usr/local/,
> at least not the way we want/expect it to.

Lost me.  What is expected/wanted?  Don't you expect Fedora to respect
the 40+ years of UNIX tradition and standards to led to the current FHS?

> So we have 2 options:
>   Install in /usr/ (no local) and break FHS
>   Install in /usr/local/ and require PYTHONPATH to use it.

Yup.  But when the distros that have been waiting for NTPsec 1.0 start
shipping NTPsec, it will be more than just ther FHS that gets broken.

RGDS
GARY
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