On Wed, 16 May 2007, Marcus Rueckert wrote:

> On 2007-05-16 11:40:13 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> > Actually unlike python, the perl directory layout doesn't prevent you
> > from creating noarch packages, because it's /usr/lib/perl5 everywhere
> > and the arch-dependent files go to /usr/lib/perl5/$arch-$os-blah-blah.
> > Just there aren't many (read: zero) noarch perl packages in the
> > distribution :-)
> 
> there are zero python noarch aswell. and zero ruby noarch.
> e.g. ruby could do the same as perl. always install into /usr/lib. the
> arch dependent part is encapsulated in a subdir.
> 
> vendordir:     /usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby
> vendorlibdir:  /usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8
> vendorarchdir: /usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux

Architecture independent files must go in /usr/share

Richard.

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