[Pkg-ROX-devel] ROX-Lib2 & more

[Torsten Marek]

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Tony Houghton schrieb:
> In <43371238.2020302 at diotavelli.net>, Torsten Marek wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm not sure whether python-rox is a good name for it, though it's policy
>>compliant. I'm also a bit unhappy of being to forced to put it into /usr/lib.
>>findrox.py expects it to be in either ~/lib, /usr/local/lib or /usr/lib. The
>>location can also be specified via an environment variable:-/
>>Do you think that a symlink from /usr/lib to /usr/lib/python2.x/site-packages
>>would be better? Are there any rox applications that do not use findrox.py?
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> IIWY I'd bring that up on the rox-devel mailing list. I don't have much
> experience of python but it sounds to me like site-packages would be a
> much better place for it. If that had been specified from the start (or
> a local branch of PYTHONPATH for users who can't/don't want to interfere
> with the system [1]) we wouldn't need findrox.py at all.

I'll do that.

> 
> [1] I'm not all that keen on the ROX policy of users owning what they
> install. It isn't necessary to make things easier when perfectly good
> system package managers are available, and keeping programs and their
> fixed data separate from the home directory and non-writable is surely
> better for security.
> 
I think so too, 0install and friends only solve an already solved problem for us.

greetings

Torsten

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