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Date:      Tue, 5 Apr 2011 19:06:28 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Gr=FCnewald?= <michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr>, FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Place to install library of shell functions
Message-ID:  <BANLkTimE2EJsAEBPoefEqZETdL6263D6Qg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110405155132.GC22718@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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2011/4/5 Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 05:23:47PM +0200, Michael Gr=FCnewald wrote:
>
>> Dear FreeBSD users,
>>
>>
>> today I come to you with what seems to be somehow pedantic question:
>> where is the best place to install libraries of shell functions.
>>
>> I read hier(4) carefully and it seems the correct place for this would
>> be somewhere under `/usr/local/share':
>>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 share/ =A0 =A0architecture-independent f=
iles
>
> I would go with /usr/local/lib.
>

I'd rather agree with the OP; shell functions are arch-independent,
and are DATADIR suited IMO.

Chris



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