On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:14:26AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: AS>>> "Ruby sucks". Ignore it. Arch-indep to share, arch-dep to lib, AS>>> screw everything else. DB>> That didn't convince me, neither in "Ruby sucks" part (all my packages DB>> in Debian except Alicq are Ruby libraries :), nor in "arch-indep to DB>> share" part: aside from common sense "lib is for libraries", in another DB>> sub-thread it was already mentioned that even interpreted libraries are DB>> not always "arch-indep". SL> But then, there are some that are.
Sure, but it is not mandated in any kind of policy that they should be. And it can't be mandated, or such policy would soon become a mess with all the per-case clauses. I think "anything that gets executed goes to lib" makes things more clear cut. SL> Finally, i don't know, but are they all that much people really SL> using /usr/share shared between different arches ? At least that is usage that FHS refers to, and the only practical effect of such division aside from abstract consistency. SL> Does dpkg/apt even allow this to work without breaking all kind of SL> things ? AFAIK yes, but I'm too lazy to prove this :) -- Dmitry Borodaenko
