Is panel plugins integration broken at the moment?

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Thu Oct 20 22:08:30 CEST 2005


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On 10/20/2005 1:02 PM, Carol Spears wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:50:27PM +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 
>>Carol Spears schreef:
>>...
>>
>>>i still think that since xfce uses samba, that is how that directory got
>>>there.  help me understand :)
>>>
>>
>>Any program can use libexec. 'libexec' is a standard location for 
>>binaries that are not meant to be run directly by the user. Like 
>>external plugins for the new panel. Some distributions compile programs 
>>with './configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib' to change the 
>>location to 'lib' instead.
>>
> 
> well, if nothing else was learned from all that crap i typed ... can you
> safely assume (at least) that it will not break things to remove stuff
> from that directory?

No... At least not any more than you can safely assume that you can
remove files from *any* system location without knowing what it does and
that you don't need it.

	-brian

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