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Re: [Seahorse-devel]Seahorse using libexec dir



On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 09:50, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> 
>   Hi!
> 
>   As Seahorse mantainer and supporter (not enough time for developer) I
>   was asking about how Bonobo components and servers must be placed.
> 
>   As far as I see, libexec dir is not being supported by FHS, so I'd
>   like to know if within GNOME it's planned to be made a policy about
>   this or we will have to face with buggy upstream packages (as far as
>   Debian FHS compliance is related)
> 
>   Thanks

 The usual fix to this is for the packagers to use
configure --libexecdir=$${prefix}/lib/seahorse .  That makes the fhs
happy and systems that currently have /libexec or /usr/libexec.

Jim

 
> 
> El día 27 abr 2003, Jacob Perkins escribía:
> > Additionally, evolution 1.3 builds do use libexec.
> > 
> > On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 19:26, Jacob Perkins wrote:
> > > If that's what the fhs says, then I have no problem with using
> > > $(prefix)/lib/seahorse.  I just thought libexec made more sense, and
> > > automake supports it, while evolution has to define its own dirs.
> > > I don't believe there are any gnome policies regarding this, but I will
> > > look into it.
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 16:13, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> > > >   Hello!
> > > > 
> > > >     I have been reading FHS, and libexec is not a directory listed
> > > >     there, so I think that seahorse-pgp-controls component should be
> > > >     moved to other different directory. Keeping it there will make
> > > >     all packages buggy (at least in distributions wanting to be FHS
> > > >     compliant)
> > > > 
> > > >     Evolution uses /usr/lib/evolution for that. After all, those
> > > >     components, though executable files, are as libraries. Anyway, I
> > > >     don't know if the place on which must be put is set in some GNOME
> > > >     document.
> > > > 
> > > >    Cheers
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