Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: using /libexec

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 17:58:12 Olivier Crête wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 16:45 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 05:21:40PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 14:46:06 William Hubbs wrote:
> > > > The simplest fix for this would be for us to add /libexec to
> > > > baselayout and start using it for platform-agnostic code. We have
> > > > /usr/libexec, so I don't know why we don't have /libexec. Should we?
> > >
> > > same answer as last time people have asked about /libexec: no.  we dont
> > > need it, and it's ugly cruft that no other distro ive seen uses, and
> > > this isnt something we need to differentiate Gentoo.
> >
> > The same thing should be applied to /usr/libexec then shouldn't it?
> > (just asking for more info here)
>
> /usr/libexec is used by almost all major distros (except Debian), it has
> been standardin Red Hat since before the FHS existed.

and i think Debian is sane for not following ;)
-mike