On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 16:19 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
It's a practical way to keep helpers out of path and autocomplete
without polluting /usr/lib[64] and having to deal with multilib issues,
what's pointless about it ?
It causes pointless configure and Makefile complications in every single
upstream project that wants to install something into that location and
has to differentiate between Fedora (/usr/libexec) and the rest of the
world (/usr/lib/$pkg). It has ripple-on effects throughout the project -
e.g. having to patch the right prefix into desktop files, into service
files, etc etc.
The fact that multilib gets in the way is an argument against the way we
do multilib, not against /usr/lib/$pkg, from my pov.
Matthias