FR: find bad installation folders

[jonasstein]

I just saw, that some packages install into strange folders (for example https://bugs.gentoo.org/635032)

One can get an overview with

qgrep exeinto | grep -v "\\$" | sort | uniq # raw list
qgrep exeinto | sed -e "s/  //g" | grep -v "\\$" | sort | uniq -c | grep -v "usr/bin" # filtered, with histogram

Gentoo packages should follow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard if possible.

I have no idea yet, how we can filter the "bad" folders and we will have to look at them in detail.
We should have an eye on

exeinto /var*
exeinto /etc/udev*
exeinto /
exeinto /usr/share/   << some may be fine here
exeinto /opt/bin (1)

1) The directories /opt/bin, /opt/doc, /opt/include, /opt/info, /opt/lib, and /opt/man are reserved for local system administrator use. Packages may provide "front-end" files intended to be placed in (by linking or copying) these reserved directories by the local system administrator, but must function normally in the absence of these reserved directories. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES

[mm1ke]

Hmm, i will think about it.. The Idea is good, but i don't have an idea too how to find those wrong folders...