On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 10:51, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 09:59, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am preparing a package for submission to Fedora.US/Fedora Extras. This
> package comes with a couple of demo applications I plan to put into a
> separate sub-package.
>
> Where to install these applications to on FC?
> What do Fedora conventions recommend?
>
> IMO, they should not be installed to bindir (/usr/bin), because these
> applications are "not really useful".
>
> Installing them to datadir (/usr/share) or pkgdatadir
> (/usr/share/<package>) also does not seem appropriate, because these
> files are architecture dependent.
>
> Remains $libexecdir/<package>.
$libexec only contains binaries that are never invoked directly, but
only through another program. So this is not the correct place to put
demos in. If there is a large number of demo apps, you could put them
into /usr/lib/<packagename>/demos, so as not to pollute /usr/bin.
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