On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:42:04 -0400 Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On Sunday, 01 April 2007, at 09:24:35 (+0900), > Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > it didn't. you moved entrance_login BUT never changed the path used > > in the code to execute it - so the exec fails and the user is logged > > out 10 secs after being logged in when entrance replaces itself with > > a much smaller footprint version of itself. check the code that > > spawns entrance_login. > > I missed a change. Fine. I'll fix that. But entrance worked just > fine for me the way it was. YOU broke the spec file by excluding > entranced from the build, and that would have broken it for everyone, > not just the systems which need entrance_login (which mine seems not > to). ALL systems need entrance_login. it's standard to replace the exe > > also there is precedent for putting executables in lib - when those > > executables are internal tools for that process and are not ever > > intended to be run on the command-line. in fact this has such a > > strong precedent, it is a POLICY in debian to do that (because all > > executables need a man page - if it is in $PATH for a user or root, > > and you don't want/need to document internal tools like this that > > are only ever used internally by a proc for it's own needs). :) > > I couldn't care less about Debian policy. glad to know your opinion. but fact remains - you broke entrance runtime. i had to debug it and reverted the changes. it's really unimportant where it goes - as long as it works. when it stops working - it's time to revert the changes. sbin is the wrong place as its not able to be useful. lib is not wrong - you just don't like it. some apps that put executables (or scripts - anything you would use exec() to make use of) in lib/appname as tools: apt cups dpkg gdm gimp scim valgrind xscreensaver ... there is a lot of precedence for it - so don't pretend it's wrong. it's just not your preference. in other worlds outside of yours it's even a standard. but of course as you say above - you don't care about that. :) > But in the interest of playing nice, we'll put it in /usr/libexec > instead of /sbin. /usr/lib is still the wrong place. > > Michael > > -- > Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > "The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by > the people, and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of > Independence says." -- President Bill Clinton, criticizing anti- > government rhetoric during campaign (The quote is actually from > Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
