rpms/monodoc/devel monodoc.spec,1.7,1.8

[Paul Howarth]

PFJ wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> My reading of the mono packaging guidelines is that things should be in
>> %{_libdir} rather than /usr/lib, and that the packager's effort should
>> go into getting the application/library to put things there and use them
>> from there. I realise this is non-trivial given the way that most
>> upstream mono apps/libraries are written, but hardcoding /usr/lib has to
>> be seen as a regression, doesn't it?
> 
> The mono directory and gac directories are ALWAYS in /usr/lib
> irrespective of architecture or platform. These are the only exceptions
> to the rules. From memory, this was decided on many moons ago by Ximian
> (that's how old it is!) to be analogous of the Windows/System directory.
> 
> I'm open to suggestions on this, but to maintain reliability and
> compliance with the mono infrastructure, it has to remain in /usr/lib

My apologies. I was confusing things. Looking at 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Mono there are still references 
to %{_prefix}/lib/mono in the "gacutil" section.

It should still be %{_prefix}/lib rather than /usr/lib though...

Paul.