On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:54:40PM +0200, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:25:15PM +0000, Mark Howard wrote: > MH> Java programs/libraries (arch independent bytecode) all go in > MH> /usr/share/java, as per policy. I guess your situation isn't all > MH> that different, so they should go in /usr/share, IMHO. > That shows that Debian interpreted language policies aren't consistent > on this issue, and whichever way I go, I end up inconsistent either with > Java and Emacs (/usr/share) or with Perl (/usr/share and /usr/lib) or > with Python, Ruby and Tcl (/usr/lib). Perl seems quite consistent to me: arch-independent modules go in /usr/share, and arch-dependent modules go in /usr/lib (including the arch-independent wrapper scripts, as a matter of convenience). PHP tends to follow similar rules. Tcl is Tcl, so I wouldn't follow its example for, well... anything. I imagine python stores everything in /usr/lib, again as a practical concession to the fact that upstream installation directories don't make it easy to use separate paths for arch-independent and arch-dependent objects. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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