Re: where do scripts go?

[William Ballard <40711.nospam@comcast.net>]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 11:08:50PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> >From there, we look at execution by user.  Yes?  /usr/{s,}bin.  No?  Is it
> architecture dependent or independent -- that is, should the exact same file
> contents be comprehensible on all architectures?  If it's architecture
> dependent, /usr/lib it goes.  Independent stuff in /usr/share.
> 
> Most of those get a package name appended, for namespace protection.

Based on my needs, I think these perl scripts belong in 
/usr/share/<package>.  I didn't know if it was permitted to have 
executable scripts in /usr/share.  I guess it is.

Thanks!