/usr/libexec

[Bill Nottingham]

Michael Schroeder (mls at suse.de) said: 
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:02:27PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > If the support programs need to be the same wordsize as the app/libraries
> > in question, it should be in /usr/{lib,lib64}/<app>.
> > 
> > If they don't care, it can be in /usr/libexec.
> > 
> > For example, xscreensaver has screensaver hacks in
> > /usr/libexec/xscreensaver - these don't care about the wordsize at all
> > (in fact, they can be shell/python/etc). So, /usr/libexec seems
> > appropriate here.
> 
> Why not /usr/share/xscreensaver if they are arch independent?

/usr/share is for files that can run on any architecture. These
are files that can be archtecture-specific, but don't have to be.

Bill