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

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/21/2012 05:54 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 05:38:17AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>> I disagree. systemd simply hasn't taken libexecdir into account in
>> its design and now is trying to propagate their oversight/mistake as
>> "standard" instead of making their works compliant with _our_
>> distro's demands.
>
> libexec doesn't exist in any published version of the FHS,

FHS != GCS

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Directory-Variables

IIRC, it's around there for at approx 20 years.

> and even the
> draft of 3.0 makes it clear that it's optional.
We all know about the strong positions of the FHS. It is the least 
common denominator of all distros and deliberately weakly formulated ;)

> Our use of libexec is
> non-standard,

C.f above. I disagree.

> not systemd's use of lib.

I disagree again. systemd is in its infancy and needs to do its 
homework. As I see it, like many other works, they simply did not take 
the GCS and the side-effects of multi-arching into account.

Now they are pressing the limitations of their design into Fedora and 
are forcing Fedora to resort to cludges.

Ralf