On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:00:21AM +0200, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:10:13AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > SL>>> I imagine python stores everything in /usr/lib, again as a > SL>>> practical concession to the fact that upstream installation > SL>>> directories don't make it easy to use separate paths for > SL>>> arch-independent and arch-dependent objects. > DB>> Doesn't apply to Ruby. > AS> "Ruby sucks". Ignore it. Arch-indep to share, arch-dep to lib, > AS> screw everything else. > > That didn't convince me, neither in "Ruby sucks" part (all my packages > in Debian except Alicq are Ruby libraries :), nor in "arch-indep to > share" part: aside from common sense "lib is for libraries", in another > sub-thread it was already mentioned that even interpreted libraries are > not always "arch-indep".
But then, there are some that are. Ocaml bytecode, for example, runs fine on all arches, i even compile the packages with arch: all, but the stuff is still in /usr/lib/ocaml, mainly because the ocaml compiler/runtime suite does not easily know how to handle more than one directory. That said, it could well go into /usr/share/ocaml. Finally, i don't know, but are they all that much people really using /usr/share shared between different arches ? Does dpkg/apt even allow this to work without breaking all kind of things ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
