On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 12:30 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 09:16:00PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I've never seen any distro take any notice of this standard whatsoever. > > Well, if you don't count Red Hat Linux, Fedora, and Red Hat Enterprise > Linux.... I should probably have been more precise about that, but what I meant was this: I've been following this list for several years now and not once in any of the many and colorful arguments we have about path names and locations do I recall anyone citing this GNU filesystem 'standard'. I don't recall it coming up once in the /usr move saga, for instance. An archive search shows I'm slightly wrong, but not very much so: https://www.google.ca/search?q="gnu coding standards"+site%3Ahttps%3A%2F %2Flists.fedoraproject.org%2Fpipermail%2Fdevel it appears to have been cited in about 10 threads since 2004. And most of those in a 'it's an interesting reference but nothing we have to follow' sort of way. Indeed, in an earlier discussion on this topic, Toshio wrote explicitly that we don't consider GCS as canonical: "to be clear the GNU coding standards are not definitive for Fedora like the FHS is at this time; I'm including the quotation to show what current best practices are in this regard" https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-June/152343.html In passing, a post from Toshio back in February explains rather more clearly than anything in this thread why systemd unit files shouldn't go in libexec anyway, and so why this whole side-thread is kind of irrelevant: "So I have to admit here that I have no idea why systemd is using $libexecdir here. The definition of libexecdir does not support the storing of unit files...unit files are declarative, not executable. It sounds like upstream systemd wants to use $(exec_prefix)/lib/systemd for the unit files and is attempting to shoehorn those into libexecdir because some distros set libexecdir to ${exec_prefix}/lib whereas some distros on some arches set libdir to ${exec_prefix}lib64 This is incorrect use of libexecdir. They should just use ${exec_prefix}/lib if that is the place that makes the most sense." https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-February/163024.html -- 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
