Re: Alternate places to install specialized binaries

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On Qui, 2016-06-09 at 12:59 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I maintain a package which comes with some benchmarking tools.  I
> would like to package these, but they have very generic names like
> "boot-benchmark", "analysis".  Also the tools are very specialized --
> you would only want them if you already know you need them.

I think is the same question of "/usr/share vs /usr/libexec" and also
vs /usr/lib

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/210148.html

if are binaries /usr/libexec , if lot of stuff /usr/share/ (and not
only binaries)

> I wonder if people have opinions on the best way to package
> these.  It
> seems to me the options are:
> 
> (1) Put them in %{_bindir} as they are.  Likely a bad idea.
> 
> (2) Put them in some other binary directory.  Not sure which though,
> maybe %{_libdir}/%{name}/ ?
> 
> (3) Rename them and put them in %{_bindir}.  This is technically
> difficult, because the binaries have manual pages which would all
> have
> to be patched to refer to the new names.
> 
> Rich.
> 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.

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