rc040203(a)freenet.de (Ralf Corsepius) writes:
I am observing packages in FE installing examples/demos to /usr/bin.
Do people agree upon this to be good packaging practice or not?
IMO, it is not, because
* This gradually fills up /usr/bin.
* Many such examples/demos are semi-functional or less and have never
been designed to be used by the public.
ACK; additionally:
* it may add additional dependencies; e.g. when haing a C project which
ships a perl script as demo, the entire package will require perl.
Packaging the demo into /usr/lib or as %doc will not help much as
rpm generates deps for all files (inclusive %doc) :( So a separate
subpackage will be the best solution.
Enrico