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[Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Dec 1 00:44:26 CET 2006 
Barry Warsaw wrote:

> When I switched to OS X for most of my desktops, I had several  
> collisions in this namespace.

I think on MacOSX you have to consider that it's really
~/Documents and the like that are *your* namespaces,
rather than the top level of your home directory.

Also, I think MacOSX has a somewhat different philosophy
about hiding things. The Finder hides the internals of
things like application bundles, which is fine, but
the application itself is visible, so you can move it
around or delete it if you want.

With ~/.local, you're hiding the fact that the applications
or libraries or whatever are even there in the first
place. You've got all this disk space being used up,
but no way of seeing where or by what, and no
obvious way of freeing it up. I think that's bad HCI.

--
Greg
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