Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:42:39 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>    + The definition of @samp{libexecdir} is the same for all packages, so you
>    + should install your data in a subdirectory thereof.  Most packages
>    + install their data under @file{$(libexecdir)/@var{package-name}/}.
> 
> This is actually wrong (but only for libexecdir), most packages
> install under:
> 
> $(libexecdir)/PACKAGE/MACHINE/VERSION/
> 
> if they install in a subdirectory in /libexec (emacs, and gcc are
> prime examples). MACHINE is the GNU machine tripple.

To claim that ``most packages'' do that, you need a better statistics
than 2 examples, even if they are ``prime''.  In standards.texi, I'd
prefer not to talk about what _most_ packages do, but about what
packages _should_ do.

(And while at that, please try not to change the
conventions/instructions too frequently, even if the current
conventions seem not 100% right.  One important aspect of coding
standards is that they stay relatively unchanged, especially where
installation instructions are concerned.  The recent changes made it
all but impossible to predict where a particular package will put its
data files and subprograms, since it depends on what version of the
standards the package maintainer succeeded to pick up.  That's BAD,
IMHO.)