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>. > > Ralf > When you separate out the demos into a subpackage, I think it is OK to put the binaries into /usr/bin, because in this case the package would only be installed by those people interested in the demos, and can easily be removed afterwards. -- Gérard Milmeister Tannenrauchstrasse 35 8038 Zürich gemi@xxxxxxxxxx
