On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 07:05:20PM -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 Goes both ways -- I just came across a SuSE mailing list discussion about patching programs to use lib/packagename instead of libexec/packagename. Of course, the GNU stuff is amenable to changes at the ./configure level, so changing that might just be a matter of redefining %{_libexecdir} and doing a gigantic mass rebuild. But that seems like pretty pointless churn. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
