/usr/libexec

Michael Schroeder mls at suse.de
Tue May 10 16:12:45 UTC 2005


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?

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls at suse.de
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