Is panel plugins integration broken at the moment?

Biju Chacko botsie at xfce.org
Fri Oct 21 07:21:48 CEST 2005


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> On 10/20/2005 1:02 PM, Carol Spears wrote:
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>>On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:50:27PM +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
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>>>Carol Spears schreef:
>>>...
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>>>>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.

Why Brian -- I'm proud of you. That was actually polite. ;-)

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