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

[Tony Houghton]

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?

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.

[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.

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