Should I use /usr/share/xyne in my packages?

Xyne · 2009-03-24 07:25:05

It's reaching the point where it will be worthwhile to split some of my packages to reuse code and centralize commonly used functions/objects for easier maintenance. Would /usr/share/xyne be the proper place to put files that I intend to reuse in different pkgs?

Allan · 2009-03-24 07:42:09

My first thought was /usr/lib/xyne but your stuff is mostly (all?) architecture independent so /usr/share/xyne is OK. Check the FHS for folder definitions

u_no_hu · 2009-03-24 07:47:07

IMO it would be great if you can combine all your perl/bash scripts (all those related to pacman,makepkg etc) into a single package and add a few man pages for each tool in the package. And then you can put all the common code in /usr/lib under that package name.

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Xyne · 2009-03-24 08:15:31

@Allan
Thanks for mentioning the FHS. I found the (quasi-?)official guide (which I hadn't even heard of before... hurray for Linoobishness) and it seems that your suggestion is what they recommend. It also makes me wonder why the lmms packager dumped the libs in /usr/lib64, but that's another matter.

@u_no_hu
I'll add man pages eventually (the only reason I haven't yet is due to my aforementioned Linoobishness) but I don't know about the combined package. I personally dislike having things that I don't use/need/care about on my system so I'm reluctant to bundle stuff. I might make a group or metapackage for those who think they want everything though, but once I start splitting things up into function libs etc, it will make more sense to have them in separate packages, even if they are small.

Dieter@be · 2009-03-24 09:28:14

Xyne wrote:

@Allan
Thanks for mentioning the FHS. I found the (quasi-?)official guide (which I hadn't even heard of before... hurray for Linoobishness)

you can also just type "man hier" in your console.

Daenyth · 2009-03-24 09:43:05

+1 for a /usr/[lib|share]/xyne

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Should I use /usr/share/xyne in my packages?

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Re: Should I use /usr/share/xyne in my packages?

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