"Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, what does the check mean? 66 packages install files into > /usr/share. It seems OK to put files in there, as long as no program > ever references thos files directly. Is that right?
Yes, it is literally correct according to FSSTD. > What does the FHS say? FHS Section 4.8.1: | The /usr/share hierarchy is for all read-only architecture | independent data files. Much of this data originally lived in /usr | (man, doc) or /usr/lib (dict, terminfo, zoneinfo). This hierarchy is | intended to be shareable among all architecture platforms of a given | OS; thus, for example, a site with i386, Alpha, and PPC platforms | might maintain a single /usr/share directory that is | centrally-mounted. Note, however, that /usr/share is generally not | intended to be shared by different OSes or by different releases of | the same OS. | Any program or package which contains or requires data that doesn't | need to be modified should store that data in /usr/share (or | /usr/local/share, if installed locally). It is recommended that a | subdirectory be used in /usr/share for this purpose. Note, not mention that "no program should ever reference anything in /usr/share". Because of that, while it is to the letter of the law that programs shouldn't look in /usr/share, the intent, given that we are soon moving to FHS, is the contrary. That's why I think that you should *not* submit bugs against packages looking for stuff in /usr/share. .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
