#1476 Clarification about fs directories
Closed: rejected by james. Opened by pkhartsk.

Guideline page needing clarification:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_merged_file_system_layout

Explanation

The difference between the last two rows in the table isn't clear. Does %{_libdir} have some more differentiation between x64/x86 architectures than %{_prefix}/lib? Should the last row even be there if it's covered by the previous one?

Also, there is a duplicate "the" in the following sentence: "For example, end users will find that /bin/sh is the same file as /usr/bin/sh, and /usr/sbin/sendmail is the the same as /usr/bin/sendmail."


If you have arch specific binaries they need to use %libdir, which will sometimes mean they go in /usr/lib64 ... if you have data files they need to use %prefix/lib and always go in /usr/lib

Metadata Update from @james:
- Issue close_status updated to: rejected
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

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