Fedora: FHS vs PYTHONPATH

[Hal Murray]

>> 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? 

Their default python setup doesn't look for libraries in /usr/local/

>> 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.

Is that a suggestion to go with PYTHONPATH?

Should we add a trap to waf configure and/or install to check that 
/usr/local/whatever is on the python search path?


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