On 1 July 2012 22:17, Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to bring to your attention the discussion surrounding > gnome-shell/networkmanager bug #679212 (NetworkManager VPN secrets: > NetworkAgent internal error): > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679212 > > A fix for this particular bug is under way. The cause for the bug was > Arch Linux's use of different libexecdirs for gnome-shell and > networkmanager plugins (/usr/lib/gnome-shell and > /usr/lib/networkmanager, respectively), instead of the default > /usr/libexec. This is in accordance with Arch Packaging Standards: > > "Avoid using /usr/libexec/ for anything. Use /usr/lib/${pkgname}/ > instead." [1] > > What is the motivation for this rule? In response to the above bug > report, a gnome-shell dev says that he "could consider this weird > libexecdir setting a distribution problem." Since this seems to be an > unusual setting, I suspect that there might still be many more bugs > lurking around for which Arch Linux plays beta tester. Indeed, this is > not the first time that I am having trouble with Arch Linux packages > using custom installation directories [2]. > > Maybe it's not such a big deal and it's just me having some tough luck > (2 events do not make a good statistic). But expectations upstream seem > to contradict the Arch Linux rule, so I wanted to bring it up for > discussion. > > Clemens > > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Package_etiquette > [2] http://gnu-octave-repository.2306053.n4.nabble.com/geometry-1-4-0-cannot-handle-installation-prefixes-td4463998.html libexec is not part of FHS, so I would say it's gnome guys who should fix that. Lukas
