From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Pggs8-0001Vh-Tc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:03:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA29CE09A4; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:03:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33DE4E0ABC for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:02:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yib17 with SMTP id 17so1454495yib.40 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:02:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id :mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :user-agent; bh=ww11huaDtnV/qzW7JpE9oqiFWn9nwOtzpY7D4+n81Lc=; b=JcnbaY30V2FlpxlCtKqnxM57iDVxku32vQUVFpPIHW3/ghZmvbT54RPHaqBaIUfsPs TDGwalVuFXrERX6vuLKN2qC6kH98/+8PD3EqxnGhbvOFIAmqRIuLQI9ViWacQ2BEwk0Z vjsj+tWadpXZX80TTHy9+YRuwvwkwPUZX1c6E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:user-agent; b=SpDSvUOk79CAV479KMxrczx3CVRDY2R0yLiJz8Pr6eyYnA3BY8TYUDWnZg0sTJL2w3 QrvOIk6HmVpV/UnFkgEe44hOz39SbpRE2an03ZU/0lhEvplz0HwLxzfLmiaPatUepTwQ 1manzyJEM9XXcZ3biXmgItpdwq8KdUKRXaZSU= Received: by 10.150.145.7 with SMTP id s7mr2346354ybd.126.1295715766700; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:02:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from linux1 (cpe-76-183-49-63.tx.res.rr.com [76.183.49.63]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p32sm7077062ybk.20.2011.01.22.09.02.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:02:45 -0800 (PST) Sender: William Hubbs Received: by linux1 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:02:42 -0600 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:02:42 -0600 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo development Subject: [gentoo-dev] rfc: libexec directory inconsistency Message-ID: <20110122170242.GA17407@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo development Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 35fd8f39b017889c7ba3278d23063a47 --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline All, I noticed that for dhcpcd and openrc we force their LIBEXECDIR to be $(get_libdir)/foo, which puts things in different directories depending on whether the system is multilib or not. I enquired from Robin why we do this, and I was told that libexec is supposed to contain things which are not abi specific, but we do not enforce that for /, even though we do for /usr. Is there a reason for this? If not, would it break things if we start using /libexec as well as /usr/libexec? William --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk07DbIACgkQblQW9DDEZThJeQCdE86n59nf6Oco0VWzaMGTBO9l vLsAmQFogJBF+9FMrMyHnxGyM3JG52m1 =/SS5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB--