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. -- Gérard Milmeister Tannenrauchstrasse 35 8038 Zürich gemi@xxxxxxxxxx
