Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo vs. the FHS

[Stanislav Brabec <utx@gentoo.org>]

V Út, 23. 09. 2003 v 23:26, Paul de Vrieze píše:
> On Tuesday 23 September 2003 22:08, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> > There are other issues, too:
> >
> > 1)
> > /usr/libexec (should not exist, files should be moved to /usr/sbin
> > and/or /usr/lib)
> >
> File bugs against the applications that do this. The files get there because 
> the installation makefiles put them there. /usr/sbin is not good as they are 
> not supposed to be run by users, but /usr/lib could be reasonable. But try to 
> first ask upstream why the packages use libexec. Some might have good 
> reasons, for others it solves the problem for others than gentoo.

We can get rid /usr/libexec per system basis - change default in econf
--libexecdir=/usr/lib or use GNU-FHS module for autoconf based configure
scripts

Users are encouraged to add subdirectories in /usr/lib, for example:

./configure --libexecdir=/usr/lib/gnome-applets2 (or similar) for GNOME2
applet packages.

Redirection to /usr/sbin will occur only for inetd network services
(where /usr/lib is not nice) and similar thinks. GNU-FHS adds
--with-libexec-sbin

There were a long discussion on fhs-discuss about is 3 years ago.

For more see ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/utx/fhs/README

> > 5)
> > /usr/X11R6/share is not in FHS (probably move --datadir to
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11)
> 
> Unfortunatly things still need to work. People expect XFree to be installed 
> where it allways installs. That includes /usr/X11R6/share

/usr/X11R6/share has never been part of XFree86.

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Stanislav Brabec
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