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.