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I am working on a python package (linux only) and using distutils. I want to put the configuration files in /etc/ and log files in /var/log/ or another common destination for such files.
Setuptools sort of recommends using a custom script extract and copy data files where necessary. Should I just provide a script or is there a better way of doing this?.
It’s better to use your distribution packaging system, e.g. deb or rpm. Because destination of additional data files generally depends of target distribution.