Re: Proper location to install shell function libraries?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/02/2017 05:57 AM, Basin Ilya wrote:
> I agree. Consider RHEL/CentOS where you can simultanneously install both .i686 
> and .x86_64 versions of one package. The packages are allowed to have 
> overlapping files, if these files don't differ.
>
> If one puts script libraries to $libdir/<subdir>,  CentOS will have duplicate files in 
> /lib/<subdir> and /lib64/<subdir>, but in case of $datadir there will be only one 
> /usr/share/<subpackage>

Right, but this is only applicable if all files are arch-independent and 
guaranteed to stay so for ever.

Ralf