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On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 13:24:28 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:

> Seems to me a system-installed application shouldn't be looking in the 
> user's .local packages in the first place.

That might depend on what it’s doing. The user may want to override system 
defaults, not just for configuration, but also for certain code to be 
executed.