Is panel plugins integration broken at the moment?

[Carol Spears]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:50:34AM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:
> Carol Spears wrote:
> > i started to wonder where such a directory came from to begin with.  i
> > am used to developers who seem to mix the ideas of easy and efficient
> > and get a really good product from that mix.  so, what reason would this
> > new directory appear in /usr/local?  seeing the xfsm-shutdown-helper and
> > having recently enjoyed the beauty and mystery of rsync -- i answered my
> > own question about where this new $PREFIX originated from and decided it
> > was for samba to be able to have its own weird little place on a
> > computer that is running between two operating systems -- or however
> > that works.  sometimes i answer my questions wrongly.  i know this.
> 
> I'm not sure if I understand your confusion, but:
> 
> $prefix is shorthand for your install root. It is something you can 
> choose at install time. Typically, source packages install under 
> /usr/local by default. However, you can choose to have them install 
> elsewhere. I install my xfce4 svn under /opt/xfce4, for example. Many 
> distros put their own packages under /usr.
> 
> Since there are multiple possible locations for your install root, 
> developers generally talk about $prefix as a shorthand for all possible 
> locations.
> 
> In your case, when you ran ./configure you did not specify a prefix so 
> it would have installed into /usr/local be default.
> 
> This doc may help you:
> 
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
> 
this actually clarified things a lot.  along with some discussion with a
friend.  he showed me this url:
http://www.humbug.org.au/talks/fhs/usr.html
and after he looked at your url declared that /usr/local/libexec is
deprecated.  and as you can see, it appears in the older document but
not in the newer one.

thanks for the discussion!
carol