testing panel plugins

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org> [2011-01-20 13:59]:
> * Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> [2011-01-20 11:36]:
> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org> wrote:
> > > * Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> [2011-01-19 23:37]:
> > >> Well its open for discussion. I've no idea which distros combine 32/64
> > >> bit; seems a bit pree 2000 to me. I can also configure-option this and
> > >> make it behave like the old panel by default; when the configure
> > >> option is enable, we only allow strict location in the same prefix as
> > >> the panel.
> > >
> > > openSUSE does offer biarch packges as well although this is
> > > currently broken/impossible for some Xfce packages after you
> > > removed libexecdir support needed for helper applications shared
> > > between 32- and 64-bit packages.
> > > Also note that some platforms such as Solaris i386 have a mixed
> > > 32- and 64-bit arch userland by default, ie. they only provide a
> > > subset of executables and libraries as 64-bit variants.
> > 
> > Libexecdir is deprecated in the fhs and therefore removed.
> 
> /usr/libexec and the libexecdir in autotools are two different
> things as the latter is configurable.
> For example when building packages on openSUSE libexecdir is set
> to /usr/lib by default for both 32-bit and 64-bit packages
> whereas libdir wil be set to /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 depending on
> the architecture, this allows for small biarch packages without
> duplicate helper executables and data files. I suppose most linux
> distros set libexecdir to /usr/lib although there are execptions.
> 
> /usr/libexec is also not deprecated or "outdated" but does not
> seem to be specified at all by the FHS which is a rather
> arbitrary decision to follow historical System V rather than BSD
> and GNU practice. All BSDs, Fedora, and RHEL e.g. use
> /usr/libexec and GNU coding standards recommend it as well.

I forgot to add, by supporting libexecdir you leave the choice to
downstream packagers where they want to install helper
executables and don't force them to patch your makefiles.

-- 
Guido Berhoerster