I put it there because it aren't binaries, and the files stored in 
/usr/share/php are architecture independent. The files stored in there 
are shared by many applications. It makes sense. (imho)


Martin Brandenburg wrote:
> AFAIK, /usr/share is for architecture-independant data. It would need to be 
> in /usr/lib/ somewhere. pacman -Ql php | grep /usr/share and a pacman -Ql php 
> | grep /usr/lib to see what I mean. Try with any package. You will never see 
> binaries in /usr/share
> 
> I don't know how much arch stays to the FHS, but: 
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA.
> 
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:58:05 +0200
> RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm proposing we put php libraries like smarty and jpgraph in:
>>
>> /usr/share/php
>>
>> and create a symlink to point to the most recent version, for example:
>>
>> /usr/share/php/smarty-2.6.18
>> /usr/share/php/smarty (symlink to 2.6.18)
>>
>> Like this, the applications using smarty don't have to change anything 
>> when smarty gets updated to, for example, 2.6.19.
>>
>> Ofcourse this does require that we put /usr/share/php in include_dir in 
>> php.ini
>>
>> What do you guys think of this?
>>
>> (jpgraph already does this, see 
>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=11594&O=0&L=0&C=0&K=jpgraph&SB=n&SO=a&PP=25&do_MyPackages=0&do_Orphans=0&SeB=nd)
>>
>> Glenn
>>
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