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Re: Bug#146023: suggested patch against policy, documenting "libexec", or current custom on use of "lib" for binaries in lib* packages



On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:41:20PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Junichi" == Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> writes:
>  Junichi> I think this was discussed enough in -devel already, but
>  Junichi> some good points about /libexec was given.  I've noticed
>  Junichi> that some known good practice is not documented in policy,
> 	Firstly, there is no such consensus that I can see. Secondly,
>  I have not seen any technical reason to make Packages
>  change. 

Did you look at the patch, or just read the introduction? Junichi just
seems to be codifying current practice ("If you want to include support
stuff in a lib* package, put it in /usr/lib/<pkgname> so when you install
libfoo2, you don't get file conflicts"), not introducing random new
stuff ("Put stuff in /libexec! Yay hurd! Yay BSD! Boo FHS!"). Are there
any packages that don't comply with the patch, that don't already have
problems with the fourth paragraph of section 11.3?

>  Junichi> and I propose the following patch:
> 	This is way premature.

Patches are almost always a good thing, even if they're completely
unsuitable to be applied. This one doesn't seem particularly unsuitable.

Cheers,
aj

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