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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 01:54:57AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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?

Can someone summarise the trac ticket:

  https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/158

and the above reply, because none of it seems to make much sense to me.

Rich.

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