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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:56:36PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Yuck! I really don't see why we should be granting this type of exceptions. 
> libexec and share exist for a reason. Helper binaries need to be in libexec, 
> unit files in share, I think allowing systemd to dump everything (and in 
> particular 64-bit stuff) to lib is setting a horrible precedent.

Unit files need to be in /, so moving them would either require creating 
a /share for distributions that haven't merged /usr or putting up with 
inconsistent naming between distributions. Consistency is a virtue and 
the chances of getting anyone else to accept /share are minimal, so /lib 
it is. Meanwhile, libexec's not part of any non-draft version of the FHS 
and doesn't exist on most other distributions, and the path of the 
helper binaries has ended up in a bunch of unit files. So, similar 
problems.

What benefit do you see in modifying systemd?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org