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From: Dave Jones <davej-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers-tD+1rO4QERM@public.gmane.org>
Cc: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: /usr/libexec/dracut/ -> /usr/lib/dracut/
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:05:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090304180551.GA8984@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac3eb2510903040228v636ce1b6y5c74aa9bef1bef7f-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:28:07AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
 > Any objection to replace "libexec" with "lib"?
 > 
 > According to LSB/FHS, applications are required to use a named
 > directory in /usr/lib/:
 >   http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLIBLIBRARIESFORPROGRAMMINGANDPA
 > Some distros, like e.g. SUSE, don't allow packages to use libexec at all.
 > 
 > Would be nice, if we could do something like:
 >   sed -i 's#/usr/libexec/dracut#/usr/lib/dracut#' Makefile dracut dracut.spec
 
I'm not against this change.  This a particularly egregious redhat-ism
that is guaranteed to break pretty much everywhere else.

	Dave

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-04 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-04 10:28 /usr/libexec/dracut/ -> /usr/lib/dracut/ Kay Sievers
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2009-03-04 18:05   ` Dave Jones [this message]

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