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

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 07:05:20PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > A systemd-specific exception works for systemd, fine, but it doesn't
> > really seem to address the root problem.
> To further elaborate: the 'root problem', it seems to me, is that this
> 'Fedoraism' as Lennart calls it results in one of two things:
> 1) we have to carry downstream patches or spec file stuff to relocate
> things to /usr/libexec (and, possibly, tell other things that those
> things have been relocated) - which is against
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects

Goes both ways -- I just came across a SuSE mailing list discussion about
patching programs to use lib/packagename instead of libexec/packagename.

Of course, the GNU stuff is amenable to changes at the ./configure level, so
changing that might just be a matter of redefining %{_libexecdir} and doing
a gigantic mass rebuild. But that seems like pretty pointless churn.


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