>> Jon Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Absolutely! This is what I meant to say.
Oh, sorry, I missunderstood. > Shipping the mesademos package in binary form does not make any > sense. There are too many libGL implementations floating around for > that. Actually, this is a tempting reason to ship them as binaries. The program *can not* fail with "undefined symbol foobar". If it does, either the program is badly broken or the OpenGL implementation used to compile it is even more broken. But no, I'm not going to do this for this reason. > Why compress them at all? Policy. I would install the files on /usr/shared/doc/mesademos/examples, which makes them documentation, which falls under this: Any additional documentation that comes with the package may be installed at the discretion of the package maintainer. Text documentation should be installed in a directory `/usr/share/doc/<package>', where <package> is the name of the package, and compressed with `gzip -9' unless it is small. -- Marcelo