[ Putting jidanni back into the loop. ]

On 2009-04-02 20:39 +0200, Romain Francoise wrote:

> Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> This file is really not supposed to exist.  Probably you have a
>> buggy package or a cron script that blindly compiles every Python
>> script under /usr/share.
>
> Or, and it's more likely, he once ran Emacs as root and used
> M-x run-python (or any of the packages based on that).  Since being
> root makes /usr writable, Python will happily write the .pyc file
> there.

I see.  That's unfortunate, but probably there is little we can do about
it.  Adding a dependency on python-support or python-central does not
really seem desirable...

Cheers,
       Sven



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