Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Since they are jsut examples, I think they can be classified > as akin to documentation, and still go in the usual place, namely, > /usr/share/doc/package/*. There is no harm done, and no loss of > functionality.
Well there's a small loss, should someone actually share /usr/share between two machines of different architectures, any architecture-specific example files will not work on one of the machines. Now I don't think compiled binaries are very useful as examples anyway, and they should be rare or none, but I can imagine other valid architecture-specific example files, like endian-specific data files or something. Putting that type of this in /usr/share/ seems against the FHS. > If all the examples refer to a single arch, we can have > /usr/share/doc/package/i386-examples/, which is clear and would > obvious to even a casual observer about what the contents of the dir > are. That's a bit of a mockery of the whole idea of /usr/share, isn't it? It just looks very weird. I'd rather have /usr/lib/package/exmaples, with /usr/share/doc/package/examples linking to it. -- see shy jo
