9base in Fedora?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu May 26 14:19:43 UTC 2011


On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:23:44PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > As I understand it, the best way to do this in Fedora, with respect to
> > same ideas in this thread, would be having %{_libexecdir}/plan9 or similar,
> > with bin, lib and share (or whatever upstream supplies) subdirectories.
> You understood it wrong, %{_libexecdir}/plan9 should contain only binaries
> and nothing else, the rest would go into %{_libdir}/plan9.

I don't understand why exactly %{_libexecdir}/plan9/* would be preferable to
the more-straightforward /usr/bin/plan9/*. Generally, programs that are in
libexec are meant to _not_ be executed directly, which is not the case here.

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences


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