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Re: location policy of gnome2 applet binaries



On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:29:34PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Eric Dorland">
> 
> > Err, libexec isn't in th FHS, so things shouldn't be put in there, it
> > would be against policy.
> 
> Upstream puts them there given that they should not be user-executable.
> libexec will go into FHS at some stage; you guys will have to work something
> out in the mean time. ;-)
> 

The way to do it is, in the upstream configure.in/Makefile.am setup, 
install the applet to libexecdir; in the Debian package, do 
"configure --libexecdir=/usr/lib/pkgname"

Havoc



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