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What should the “share” subdirectory contain?

When one has installed a library and look at what its repository contain, he may find something like that:

repo/

  • bin/
  • lib/
  • share/

What the “share” repository should contain in general? Are there other types of subdirectories?

Thanks!

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Answer

The “share” word is used because what is under /usr/share is platform independent, and can be shared among several machines across a network filesystem. Therefore this is the place for manuals, documentations, examples etc.

RTFM

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