On 6/14/06, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net> 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