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libexecdir (was Re: Headsup: several packages require .manifest files)


On 10/06/2009 07:59, Eric Blake wrote:
According to Yaakov (Cygwin/X) on 6/7/2009 1:06 AM:
[1] Which, AFAIK, should be /usr/lib/git-core per the FHS.

I think I can fix this, but wonder why cygport was setting libexecdir to /usr/sbin in the first place.

Because long ago (=as long as I've been using Cygwin) somebody decided so:


http://cygwin.com/setup.html#package_contents

OTOH IMHO this is incorrect:

* libexec programs are not meant for direct execution by any user; sbin programs are (by superuser).
* libexec is often deep, which AFAIK /usr/sbin should not be per FHS.


There are a few other ways of handling libexec:

1) GNU autotools uses /usr/libexec. The problem is that is not FHS-compliant, which we generally try to be.

2) Default to /usr/lib. This will do the right thing when a package wants a subdir of libexecdir (e.g. git, gnupg, octave), but libexec_PROGRAMS will probably want to override that with a subdir thereof.

Thoughts?


Yaakov



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