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/usr/share

Posted May 19, 2006 16:07 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: /usr/share by jzbiciak
Parent article: Debian multiarch support

Yes, that's pretty much what /usr/share is intended for, but the fact
that it was mentioned seems to imply a change of some sort.

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/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 only
changes when you upgrade the OS (or pieces of it).

This is all explained in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/