/usr/libexec
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Tue May 10 16:28:28 UTC 2005
Michael Schroeder (mls at suse.de) said:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:02:27PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > If the support programs need to be the same wordsize as the app/libraries
> > in question, it should be in /usr/{lib,lib64}/<app>.
> >
> > If they don't care, it can be in /usr/libexec.
> >
> > For example, xscreensaver has screensaver hacks in
> > /usr/libexec/xscreensaver - these don't care about the wordsize at all
> > (in fact, they can be shell/python/etc). So, /usr/libexec seems
> > appropriate here.
>
> Why not /usr/share/xscreensaver if they are arch independent?
/usr/share is for files that can run on any architecture. These
are files that can be archtecture-specific, but don't have to be.
Bill
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