[FHS] helper scripts location

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2011/6/14 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>:
>
> Well, I would agree to tolerating /usr/lib/<package>/ (Which btw is the
> current defacto rule in Fedora practice) but would disagree otherwise,
> because
>
> - /usr/share (aka datadir) is reserved for "arch-independent data", i.e.
> should not contain executables and programs.
>
> - /usr/lib (according to the GNU coding standards) should not contain
> programs.
>
> - $(libdir)/<package>/ basically is a package's private play-ground and
> therefore may also contain programs and scripts.
>

ok.

>
> <sigh/> some people seem to need written rules for everything, for what
> generations of people before them took for granted ;)
>
> Ralf
>

We should at least document exceptions to best practices so we can
confine them in a small corner. :)
"Dark corners are basically fractal — no matter how much you
illuminate, there's always a smaller but darker one." - Brian
Kernighan (one third of the holy *nixy trinity)


H.