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From: "Olivier CrĂȘte" <tester@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: using /libexec
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:59:50
Message-Id: 1315346295.22339.8.camel@TesterTop4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: using /libexec by William Hubbs
1 On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 16:45 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 05:21:40PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 14:46:06 William Hubbs wrote:
4 > > > The simplest fix for this would be for us to add /libexec to baselayout
5 > > > and start using it for platform-agnostic code. We have /usr/libexec, so
6 > > > I don't know why we don't have /libexec. Should we?
7 > >
8 > > same answer as last time people have asked about /libexec: no. we dont need
9 > > it, and it's ugly cruft that no other distro ive seen uses, and this isnt
10 > > something we need to differentiate Gentoo.
11 >
12 > The same thing should be applied to /usr/libexec then shouldn't it?
13 > (just asking for more info here)
14
15 /usr/libexec is used by almost all major distros (except Debian), it has
16 been standardin Red Hat since before the FHS existed.
17
18 --
19 Olivier CrĂȘte
20 tester@g.o
21 Gentoo Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: using /libexec Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>