Michael Schroeder (mls@suse.de) said:
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:02:27PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
If the support programs need to be the same wordsize as the app/libraries in question, it should be in /usr/{lib,lib64}/<app>.
If they don't care, it can be in /usr/libexec.
For example, xscreensaver has screensaver hacks in /usr/libexec/xscreensaver - these don't care about the wordsize at all (in fact, they can be shell/python/etc). So, /usr/libexec seems appropriate here.
Why not /usr/share/xscreensaver if they are arch independent?
/usr/share is for files that can run on any architecture. These are files that can be archtecture-specific, but don't have to be.
Bill