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Re: Library with "demos", where should demos go?



On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:51:51PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:

> Unless the demos are useful for something other than a demonstration, I
> would not install them in /usr/bin.  Instead, I would put them in
> /usr/share/doc/package_name/examples/.  I'd also put the demo source in
> there.

The source is fine there, but binaries must not go in /usr/share.  If the
demos are useful in binary form, they should go in /usr/bin.  If they are
only useful as programming examples, they should ship in source form only.

-- 
 - mdz



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