On 6/14/06, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 15:34 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway a écrit : > On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 22:17 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > > Why on earth do you want it in /usr/lib if you know it's > > arch-independant ? > > Because they're still libraries, in a weird perverted Windowsy way? So what ? Are their any less libraries than jar files ? lisp packages ? All those end up in /usr/share in Fedora now, as the FHS demands
Are they any less libraries than Perl, Ruby, or Python code? Those all end up in /usr/lib.
The "it's code, therefore it shouldn't go in /usr/share" argument is bogus. We have a ton of code in /usr/share, both shared and app-specific
Those three languages are grandfathered in because they expect to install code and shared libraries in /usr/lib. They now put shared libraries and code that uses them under /usr/lib64 and noarch packages in /usr/lib. Mono is probably in the same boat. It might be possible to put the arch-independent code in /usr/share but it would create compatibility problems with existing packages, other distributions, and the installers expectations. Probably not worth the trouble for LHS purity. - Ian -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
