Re: location policy of gnome2 applet binaries

[Sebastian Henschel <shensche@kodeaffe.de>]

hi list..

Received at 2002-12-01 / 18:18 by Havoc Pennington:
> 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"

fine, this sounds sensible.
upstream into $libexecdir (which is /usr/local/libexec per default) and
debian into $libexecdir = /usr/lib.

thanks for all your input,
 sebastian
-- 
::: sebastian henschel
::: kodeaffe
::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de/shensche.pub | gpg --import