On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 10:58 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote: > rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx (Ralf Corsepius) writes: > > > I am observing packages in FE installing examples/demos to /usr/bin. > > Do people agree upon this to be good packaging practice or not? > > > > IMO, it is not, because > > * This gradually fills up /usr/bin. > > * Many such examples/demos are semi-functional or less and have never > > been designed to be used by the public. > > ACK; additionally: > > * it may add additional dependencies; e.g. when haing a C project which > ships a perl script as demo, the entire package will require perl. > > Packaging the demo into /usr/lib or as %doc will not help much as > rpm generates deps for all files (inclusive %doc) :( So a separate > subpackage will be the best solution. I realize I have not been precise enough. The trigger for this thread to me had been example/demo binaries handling in https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-commits/2005-July/msg00619.html In this case, "example binaries" are being packaged into an *-examples package and are installed to /usr/bin. The question here is, should these binaries be installed at all, or should they better be installed accompanying the source code somewhere else, or should the whole examples not be installed at all (This seems to have been the intention of the original authors, because the original Makefiles do not install them). If they are coding examples, IMO, it would be best to only ship the sources (then /usr/share/doc probably would be appropriate), or to ship these binaries, accompanied by the source-code somewhere under /usr/lib/<package>. When having faced a similar problem with my Inventor package some time ago at fedora.us, the outcome of a similar discussion was to ship Inventor's examples source-code without binaries below /usr/lib/<Inventor> (c.f. Inventor-examples). A counter example to this consideration is gtk-demo. RH ships it as part of the gtk2 package :( Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
