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/usr/share/usr/sharePosted May 18, 2006 21:58 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)Parent article: Debian multiarch support
"The proposed location for all architecture-independent binaries is
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/usr/share Posted May 19, 2006 15:58 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link] It's probably better to say "architecture independent files." When I hear the word "binary" referring to a file I usually think "executable." I think what they mean here are all the supporting files for an application, which may include image files, documentation files, and other fairly static things.
/usr/share Posted May 19, 2006 16:07 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] Yes, that's pretty much what /usr/share is intended for, but the factthat it was mentioned seems to imply a change of some sort.
/usr/share Posted May 19, 2006 16:24 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link] Well, it appears a bunch of otherwise arch-neutral stuff ends up in places like /var/lib currently. On my Ubuntu box, for instance, there's a bunch of Firefox files in /var/lib/mozilla-firefox, and they appear at first blush to be arch-neutral--they're all .rdf and .txt files pretty much. All the doc files, though, are in /usr/share/doc/mozilla-firefox/.
/usr/share Posted May 19, 2006 16:44 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] Yes, /var is for files that change a lot during runtime. /usr onlychanges when you upgrade the OS (or pieces of it). This is all explained in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
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