Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-12-19)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/21/2012 09:24 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 12/21/2012 12:27 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:30:37PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, but I think the bit I'm mising is why can't systemd use
>>> libexec?  (Apart from their declaration that libexec is wrong or not
>>> the de-facto standard they themselves made up, which is not a reason).
>>
>> Because libexec doesn't exist on most other distributions, and systemd
>> aims to offer consistent interfaces across distributions.
>
> Shouldn't binaries which are part of the external interface reside in
> /usr/sbin?

No. /usr/sbin was used for sys-admin binaries, which were not required 
during bootup and not useful to ordinary users.

Since Fedora has fallen into the UsrMove-trap, this argument is moot on 
Fedora.

> If the paths are not part of the interface, cross-distribution
> consistency shouldn't matter (as seen with git, for example).

Correct. That's what the GCS are recommending libexecdir is for.

Ralf