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

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/21/2012 06:16 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 06:09 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I've never seen any distro take any notice of this standard whatsoever.

Bummer ... you have been living in a vacuum for the last 20 years and 
have never been coding any "a little more complex package" ?

RPM respects the GCS ever since RPM exists, autoconf honors it ever 
since autoconf and the GCS exists and all major GNU and many more 
projects honor it.

Some even make heavy active use of it (Most prominently: GCC).

> This is in fact the first reference I've seen to it in any context.
... <Sigh/>

Ralf