Re: [arch-dev-public] Libexec policy?

2011-09-03 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 03/09/11 18:05, Jan Steffens wrote: >> >> I've been wondering why we do not have /usr/libexec. >> > I think the general reason is that the libexec directory is not specified in > the FHS.  Have not looked at the latest draft though... If I

Re: [arch-dev-public] Libexec policy?

2011-09-03 Thread Allan McRae
On 03/09/11 18:05, Jan Steffens wrote: I've been wondering why we do not have /usr/libexec. The GNOME packages apparently use --libexecdir=/usr/lib/$pkgname. We've been running into problems with GNOME 3.2 because increasingly more components depend on the libexecdir being the same across all pa

Re: [arch-dev-public] Libexec policy?

2011-09-03 Thread Florian Pritz
On 03.09.2011 10:05, Jan Steffens wrote: > I've been wondering why we do not have /usr/libexec. I think we don't have /usr/libexec because it's not in FHS [1]. > The GNOME packages apparently use --libexecdir=/usr/lib/$pkgname. > We've been running into problems with GNOME 3.2 because increasingl

[arch-dev-public] Libexec policy?

2011-09-03 Thread Jan Steffens
I've been wondering why we do not have /usr/libexec. The GNOME packages apparently use --libexecdir=/usr/lib/$pkgname. We've been running into problems with GNOME 3.2 because increasingly more components depend on the libexecdir being the same across all packages (we already had this problem in GD