On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 18:36, Gérard Milmeister wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 18:17, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 10:59, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > > IMO, they should not be installed to bindir (/usr/bin), because these > > > applications are "not really useful". > Are these binaries from code examples for some library or similar? Yes. Most of them are coding examples for a library, very few of them are actual "usable sample applications". > If yes, it might make better sense not to include the binaries, but > only > the source code in /usr/share/doc/<package-name>-demos-<ver> > and make sure there is a functioning Makefile to build the binaries, > i.e. allow the user to 'cp -a > /usr/share/doc/<package-name>-demos-<ver> > .' and then make. I had considered this, but implementing this would require substantial effort (The package uses a bizarre and complex GNUmakefile system and supports building the example code only as part of the complete source-tree.) Meanwhile I have checked what Debian does with this particular package: * They do not ship the coding examples * They install the sample-applications to /usr/lib/<package> Ralf
