Re: git binary directory?

Kay Sievers [off-list ref] 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?

Dear diary, on Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 06:36:59AM CET, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] told me that...

Kay Sievers [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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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