On Fri, 21.12.12 05:38, Ralf Corsepius (rc040...@freenet.de) wrote: > On 12/21/2012 12:27 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:30:37PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > >>Thanks, but I think the bit I'm mising is why can't systemd use > >>libexec? (Apart from their declaration that libexec is wrong or not > >>the de-facto standard they themselves made up, which is not a reason). > > > >Because libexec doesn't exist on most other distributions, > libexecdir is part of the GNU standards for ages.
The "GNU standard" is kinda flawed and nobody uses that as 1:1. I mean, /usr/etc? /usr/var?? /us/com??? It's probably more interesting in looking at the more realistic "standards", such as FHS, and on what is actually really implemented, rather than on GNU which is really mostly theory... I mean, not even Debian as the distro closest to GNU follows much of that... > I disagree. systemd simply hasn't taken libexecdir into account in > its design and now is trying to propagate their oversight/mistake as > "standard" instead of making their works compliant with _our_ > distro's demands. No, we just look around, and try to do something that is not specific to a distro, somewhat sane and follows the schemes of the established to the level where they make sense. I mean, we really wanted to avoid that unit files end up in different dirs on various distros. No distro but Fedora uses libdexecdir, hence we didn't put suff in there. And /share doesn't exist in the root dir, hence all distros which haven't merge /usr can't have the unit files in /share, hence /lib is the only option. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
