On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:38:17 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > I'd recommend to install examples/demos to either > /usr/lib/<package>/ > or even to > /usr/share/doc/<package> > > Opinions, comments? Certainly _not_ /usr/share, as that one is for architecture-independent data. Reasonable: * use a separate -demos package for them * include them in -devel package as source, so developers can build them and examine them * don't package them if they are not built by default and depending on what kind of demos/example they are -- Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Core release 5 (Development) - Linux 2.6.12-1.1422_FC5 loadavg: 2.18 1.74 1.49 -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
