[Fedora-packaging] Mono Packaging Issues

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 22:44 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot 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:
> > > Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 14:56 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway a écrit :
> > > 
> > > > If the mono package does not include .so files, it should be BuildArch:
> > > > noarch and use /usr/lib.
> > > 
> > > 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
> 
> 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

OK, so if we put everything in %{_datadir}/%{name}, the following
questions arise:

1. Does this work? Or do the apps stop working?
2. Can we still put the .so files in %{_libdir}/%{name}, symlink them
back to %{_datadir}/%{name}? Does this work? Or do the apps stop
working?

~spot
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