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Re: PHP libraries in /usr/share/



Tomasz Muras <nexor1984@gmail.com> writes:

> It looks like a common place to put PHP libraries is under
> /usr/share. However, our wiki page [1] says:
> /usr/share/ : Architecture-independent (shared) data

> I think the "data" bit there is misleading, are you OK to remove it? For
> the PHP packages, it's really a source code that we put there.

That's the wording from the FHS, so rather than removing it, I think it
would be better to add a clarification of what the FHS means by "data"
(which is basically "anything that isn't a user-executable program or
configuration file and includes such things as architecture-independent
libraries").

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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