On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:52:58AM +0100, Armin K. wrote: > On 02/15/2014 11:29 PM, Armin K. wrote: > > On 02/15/2014 06:23 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> After akhiezer's thorough review of the FHS changes, I've narrowed > >> things down to the following. > >> > >> The numbers refer to the version control patch number, as in: > >> > >> http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/lsb/devel/fhs-spec/revision/<number> > >> > >> The comment and short description follow. Then are my comments. I'm in > >> the process of rebuilding again with the libexec overrides removed. I > >> still need to look at grub for LFS and possible addition of some > >> directories in the 'Creating Directories' section, but otherwise, things > >> are looking pretty good. > >> > >> -- Bruce > > > > I'd rather not. > > > > 1) It's a big change for this late in the cycle and such changes have > > always be known to produce some problems later on (even minor ones) > > because of hurry to implement them. > >
Agreed. In passing, I think the same thing about shared libs from flex - for this release - because it needs more time to be worked through. > > 2) It's not declared stable, and thus it contradicts with B/LFS only > > shipping stable software (/run was a must rather, else software wouldn't > > work without it). > > > 3) No distro is using it yet except Fedora, which is playground for > many things that we also don't use. I see no reason to rush here. > LOL. RH and Fedora have always used libexec. I came from a Red Hat (6,7) and then Mandrake background, so libexec has never bothered me, and we started to use it in BLFS some time in the last couple of years. I've also found a report showing ubuntu 13.04 is using it: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/74646/difference-between-lib-lib32-lib64-libx32-and-libexec > > Being it a big change, I'd suggest postponing it for a later release > > then calling such release 8.x. > > For this, I don't think it is a big enough change to call it 8.0 - 7.0 came with totally rewritten bootscripts. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
