On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/28/2010 08:39 PM, Andrea Musuruane wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I was performing a package review for RPM Fusion: >> http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1153 >> >> RPM Fusion follows the Fedora Packaging Guidelines so I think I can >> ask here a question it came to me during the review. >> >> This package has some exec files correctly installed by the packager >> in %libexecdir/packagename/bin instead of %libdir/packagename/bin >> because they are called by the main program who sits in %bindir. >> >> The files in %libexecdir use some files in >> %libexecdir/packagename/doc to show help, options, examples, etc when >> called with some parameters. >> >> Is it acceptable to leave these files here? > > No, this is not acceptable. > > Think of libexecdir as an auxilliary bindir, which is supposed to take > applications, users are not supposed to invoke directly. Files in libexecdir are only called by a wrapper that sits in bindir. > You'd have to provide more details about how these "docs affect the runtime" > to be able to help. > > In case applications (Independently of where they are installed) access them > directly (e.g. because these docs are part of an application-specific, > application-integrated documentation system), /usr/share/<package> or a > subdir of it may be a suitable candidate. Yes, that's the case. I agree datadir/package_name is the best option we have. Thank you for your reply. Regards, Andrea. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
