[Fedora-packaging] Script-Tools, which location?

[Björn Persson]

Simon A. Erat wrote:
> First of all, whats the acronym FHS standing for?

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

It's linked from the Packaging Guidelines, which I hope you read before you 
made your package:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Filesystem_Layout

> 1) At first it was designed to be distributed as tarball, i want to keep
> this option, as this allows an easy port/install to any other linux distro.
>    (just extract anywhere of your choice and run from there)

It's easier to do that if you give your relocatable directory tree an FHS-like 
structure, with a prefix that can be set to "/usr", "/usr/local", 
"/opt/Simon's-script-tools" or anything else, and place scripts in $prefix/bin, 
read-only data in $prefix/share et cetera.

You may still find that you need to make your scripts capable of adapting a bit 
to different directory layouts.

> i currently save any data in $HOME/bin/$USER-libs, and offering
> $HOME/bin/$USER-scripts to be used for custom scripts using the functions
> which Script-Tools provides.

You shouldn't make subdirectories under $HOME/bin any more than under 
/usr/bin. Although users' home directories are less standardized than system 
directories, $HOME/bin is typically used for the users' own programs that they 
want to be able to run from a command prompt. Programs in subdirectories 
wouldn't be found unless the users added the subdirectories to PATH.

Also, anything that ends with "libs" seems like a bad name for a directory to 
save data in.

Björn Persson
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