Re: git binary directory?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 6, 2005, 08:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20051106082338.GN1431@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7v4q6q5ock.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 06:36:59AM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...

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> Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:
> 
> > Note that "libexec" is not LSB conform - whatever that means, but it
> > should probably not be used for new projects. It states: "Applications
> > may use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib."
> 
> I had an impression that there are still UNIXy systems that are
> not even Linux; do they follow LSB and drop libexec?

At least BSDs still seem to have libexec, but they are just as likely to have lib, I would say, while on Linux it is going away (not that I would be excited about it). So we could either make this per-system, or default to something that is going to be present everywhere (lib), I think.

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