systemd unit file location

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Fri Dec 21 02:05:52 UTC 2012


On 12/20/2012 03:30 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:02:22PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> The effect of this is:
>>
>> FPC will write into the Guidelines (probably where libexec is mentioned
>> since that's where the note about being able to use %{_libdir} as an
>> alternative to %{_libexecdir} is ) that the systemd helper binaries and
>> unitfiles have been granted a special exception to install into
>> %{_prefix}/lib instead of %{_libdir}.
>>
>> This should mean that nothing changes in the systemd packages or in packages
>> which provide unitfiles.  They are already installing into those locations.
>
> 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).

Shouldn't they be in /usr/share/systemd?


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