Björn Lindqvist <bjou...@gmail.com> writes: > Rupert Swarbrick skrev 2013-08-27 11:20: >> The obvious thing to do, which I think is the standard approach for >> packaging such programs, is the following. Just install Factor, with the >> binary called "factor", into some directory in /usr/share. For example, >> /usr/share/factor would be fine. Then create a symlink or a shell script >> in /usr/bin pointing to /usr/share/factor, which is called factor-lang >> or whatever. > > Interesting! I thought putting binaries outside of bin directories were > heavily discouraged. Which is why I choose to rename it. Do you have an > example of a package that follows the approach you are suggesting? Then > I could just copy that.
Gabriel knows more about this than I did, it seems! A quick hunt through /usr/bin on my laptop (Debian) shows that loffice seems to work how I described, but it's much less common than I thought. Do what he says! :-) Rupert
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