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Bug 295333 - Portage QA addition: ELF files in /usr/share
Summary: Portage QA addition: ELF files in /usr/share
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2009-12-01 14:15 UTC by Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED)
Modified: 2020-12-27 05:33 UTC (History)
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Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-12-01 14:15:11 UTC 
The /usr/share path should be used by arch-independent files, but some packages install ELF files in there, which they shouldn't.

This would also require for a QA_NONEXEC_ELF or something like that to tell Portage to ignore particular ELF files, like firmware and bios files (see qemu/kvm), that are effectively arch-independent for what concerns the host.