Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 01:34:19AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> For openssl and openssh I removed the libexec override. That begs the >> question whether we should continue to document the files placed in >> /usr/libexec. I lean to no although I haven't removed any yet. >> >> Files I have now: >> >> $ ls -F /usr/libexec >> awk/ code* frcode* getconf/ rmt* ssh-keysign* sudo/ >> bigram* coreutils/ gcc/ man-db/ sftp-server* ssh-pkcs11-helper* >> >> In the above, bigram, code, and frcode are from findutils. >> ssh* and sftp* are from openssh >> getconf is from glibc >> rmt is from tar >> >> If we really wanted to, we could probably set libexecdir for those >> packages to install in a subdir of /usr/libexec like the others. I >> don't want to do that for 7.5, but it's a thought for the future. > For documentation, I am ambivalent and also to remove what someone > has already taken the time to document. That's a good point, but the documentation is incomplete. If a user is looking for a library or executable, would they think to look in /usr/libexec? Also we don't now document an installed directory such as /usr/libexec/sudo. > For installing in a > subdirectory, I'm _mostly_ not keen - extra work for no obvious gain. > > However, looking back at my logs from October/November when I did > scripted builds of a lot more of BLFS, I think we might need to do > this for one or both versions of vte : they both installed > gnome-pty-helper, without an override it looks as if whichever is > installed later (if both are installed) will overwrite that program > from the earlier install. Do you know if the versions of gnome-pty-helper were different? If so, were they equivalent? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
