The correct way to do this in Fedora and in the FHS is to :
1. install libraries (and binaries? see 3.) in /usr/lib(64) > Large software packages must not use a direct subdirectory under > the /usr hierarchy. 2. provide prefixed : — binaries or — symlinks to binaries in /usr/lib(64)/foo (see 3.) … in /usr/bin so binaries that are intended to be executed directly by users or shell scripts are exposed properly > /usr/lib includes object files, libraries, and internal binaries > that are not intended to be executed directly by users or shell > scripts. 3. eventually use alternatives to switch between prefixed implementations (as do java for example, not that I recommand this particular can of worms it's a packager PITA) ; this requires cooperation between all the alternative implementation packages If there is no wish to switch the whole system implementation then your binaries are not “ intended to be executed directly by users or shell script ” and the few scripts that specifically require them can set a path pointing to /usr/lib(64)/foo So there is no need to panic, everything is provided for in the FHS, and no need to ask for an exception against “Large software packages must not use a direct subdirectory under the /usr hierarchy.” -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
