[ILUG] Canonical plugin install location

[fergal daly]

Caolan McNamara wrote:
> 
> Is there a canocial plugin install location, into /usr[/local]/lib
> certainly seems wrong, share/plugins ? libexec ?

The file system standard is that /usr/share is for arch independent
files and that /usr/man and /usr/doc should actually be /usr/share/man
and  /usr/share/doc but you shouldn't put libs in there. The idea is
that this can be shared across machines of varying arch types.

This leaves /usr/lib/appname/ to put your plugins, as they are actually
libraries. Putting them straight into /usr/lib/ would be nasty though,
there's enough stuff in there already.

I don't think libexec gets a mention in the FHS at all. You can get it
here

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

couldn't find it on linuxdoc.org for some reason. It's worth reading,
especially as it's being gradually adopted by the distros,

Fergal