On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 18:54 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > A systemd-specific exception works for systemd, fine, but it doesn't > really seem to address the root problem. To further elaborate: the 'root problem', it seems to me, is that this 'Fedoraism' as Lennart calls it results in one of two things: 1) we have to carry downstream patches or spec file stuff to relocate things to /usr/libexec (and, possibly, tell other things that those things have been relocated) - which is against https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects or: 2) we have to pressure upstream projects to needlessly complicate their code and buildsystem with stuff like $libexecdir variables in their autofoo, which resolve to /usr/libexec on Fedora/RHEL but just /usr/lib or something on other distros - which is kind of an imposition on upstreams All this for the rather questionable benefit of having a specifically defined place for helper-scripts-not-meant-to-be-executed-directly, which gains us...what, exactly, over just putting them in /usr/lib/(appname) or /usr/share/(appname) or whatever? I don't see that libexec is actually giving us some kind of huge win to justify the inconveniences. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
