Python Library Cleanups

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Fred!

On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:08:56 -0700 (PDT)
Fred Wright via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> Resending with the correct subject.
> 
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Fred Wright via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:  
> > > > Plus these are most likely too late for 1.0.  We are in the
> > > > final testing phases now.  
> > >
> > > I think requiring users to set PYTHONPATH to run the tools should
> > > be considered a show stopper for a 1.0 release.  
> >
> > And I would so regard it if this were ever required on Linux or
> > FreeBSD. I have had no report of this.  
> 
> The documentation used to suggest putting a PYTHONPATH definition in
> one's .bashrc.  That should have set off alarm bells.

That is how it is SUPPOSED to work for user installed source files.

Locally installed user source is supposed to go in /usr/local/.

System packages are supposed to go in /usr/

Not obeying the 30 year old convention of wchich to pick is bad.  But
the new patches put some in /usr and some in /usr/local/which is just
wrong.

This is all per the HFS.

There may be other ways around the PYTHONPATH issues,, but breaking the
FHS is a bad one.

RGDS
GARY
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