On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
now I'm curious.
Does it make more sense for these sort of scripts to live in
/usr/libexec, or in /usr/share?
/usr/libexec. From (info standards):
`libexecdir'
The directory for installing executable programs to be run by other
programs rather than by users.
The thing that threw me is that I poked around in /usr/share and found this:
$ cat /bin/createrepo
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py "$@"
Given what you're saying, would this be considered a bug in createrepo?
Then we get into philosophical discussions about what is “the program” and what is “data used by the program”… In this case, the /usr/share/createrepo/* paths are not a documented stable API (but /usr/bin/createrepo is), and Python programs consisting of multiple files are easier to run and develop if all the files are in the same directory, so this seems a reasonable way to do things.
Seems like a good match to put into libexec to me,
Paul
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