On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 09:04:27 +0100 Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 12:45:38PM +0200, MJ Ray wrote:
I would look at ubuntu-policy, debian-policy, debian-python-policy, File Heirarchy Standard and so on. I expect there are defaults (probably $HOME/lib/python and so on) which the system packages would use automatically but I do not know them by heart.
Excellent idea, thank you, I sort of knew about 'policy' but it hadn't occurred to me to look for them explicitly.
Oh yes - there is an installable package called debian-policy but sometimes you have to look on the website for the subsidiary policies or the latest updates.