The FHS is a Linux standard that describes the directory structure applicable to Linux and software distributed for linux, whether packages (such as in debs and rpms) or not.
According to Google the current FHS is at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ FHS describes /usr/share and /usr/local/share thus << /usr/share : Architecture-independent data Purpose The /usr/share hierarchy is for all read-only architecture independent data files. [30] This hierarchy is intended to be shareable among all architecture platforms of a given OS; thus, for example, a site with i386, Alpha, and PPC platforms might maintain a single /usr/share directory that is centrally-mounted. Note, however, that /usr/share is generally not intended to be shared by different OSes or by different releases of the same OS. >> Since the engines are executable code, and are usable outside of Scid, they should be stored in /usr/local/bin or maybe /usr/local/games. On a side note, since users may already have some of the engines installed, building them from source should be optional, and their binaries should be delivered in separate containers, whether packages as debs or requivalent (and so install to /usr/bin etc) or tarballs which users unpack into /usr/local/bin etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
