On 06/14/2011 11:57 AM, 80 wrote: > 2011/6/14 Ralf Corsepius<rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> On 06/14/2011 12:26 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> HaÃkel GuÃmar wrote: >>>> I spent some time yesterday talking with opensuse guys on irc, since >>>> /usr/libexec has not been blessed by FHS >> libexecdir is GNU Standards for ages (decades). >> >> It's supposed to be kind of an "auxilliary bindir", to hide away >> programs, users are not supposed to execute directly. >> >> It's formal definition[1] is >> >> <cite> >> libexecdir >> >> The directory for installing executable programs to be run by other >> programs rather than by users. This directory should normally be >> â/usr/local/libexecâ, but write it as â$(exec_prefix)/libexecâ. (If you >> are using Autoconf, write it as â@libexecdir@â.) >> >> The definition of âlibexecdirâ is the same for all packages, so you >> should install your data in a subdirectory thereof. Most packages >> install their data under â$(libexecdir)/package-name/â, possibly within >> additional subdirectories thereof, such as >> â$(libexecdir)/package-name/machine/versionâ. >> </cite> >> >> In Fedora, we treat libexecdir as optional and allow packages to install >> such "non-user programs" to %libdir/<subdir>/ instead, primarily for >> historical reasons. >> [1] http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html > Do we agree that until FHS canonicalize libexecdir, libexecdir is the > recommended location for helper scripts and that /usr/{lib,share} are > *tolerated* (ie: not configurable, requires non-upstream-able > intrusive patch etc ...) ? Well, I would agree to tolerating /usr/lib/<package>/ (Which btw is the current defacto rule in Fedora practice) but would disagree otherwise, because - /usr/share (aka datadir) is reserved for "arch-independent data", i.e. should not contain executables and programs. - /usr/lib (according to the GNU coding standards) should not contain programs. - $(libdir)/<package>/ basically is a package's private play-ground and therefore may also contain programs and scripts. > In consequence, we should then update > packaging guidelines to explicitely state this. <sigh/> some people seem to need written rules for everything, for what generations of people before them took for granted ;) Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
