Packaging: Where to install demo apps to?

Gérard Milmeister gemi at bluewin.ch
Tue Jun 29 08:51:21 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 09:59, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am preparing a package for submission to Fedora.US/Fedora Extras. This
> package comes with a couple of demo applications I plan to put into a
> separate sub-package.
> 
> Where to install these applications to on FC?
> What do Fedora conventions recommend?
> 
> IMO, they should not be installed to bindir (/usr/bin), because these
> applications are "not really useful".
> 
> Installing them to datadir (/usr/share) or pkgdatadir
> (/usr/share/<package>) also does not seem appropriate, because these
> files are architecture dependent.
> 
> Remains $libexecdir/<package>.
> 
> Ralf
>  
When you separate out the demos into a subpackage, I think it is OK to
put the binaries into /usr/bin, because in this case the package would
only be installed by those people interested in the demos, and can
easily be removed afterwards.
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Gérard Milmeister
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