[Lunar-commits] <moonbase-other> qt5: Fixing the bindir

[Stefan Wold]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Dennis Veatch
<dennisveatch at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Monday 15 September 2014 8:53:49 PM Stefan Wold wrote:
>> >> In my opinion the binaries should stay in /usr/lib/qt5/bin for now
>> >> or should be moved to /usr/libexec/qt5.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> v4hn
>> >
>> > I don't like the idea either but I am even less fond of binaries living in
>> > /usr/lib.
>> >
>> > dveatch
>>
>> I agree with you, but a subdir in bin/ is still a no. Also if you look
>> at all the other major distros out there they've got the same dilemma
>> as us. Fedora, gentoo and arch, they all put the qt[45] binaries in
>> lib/qt[45]/bin so there's no reason for us to go against the
>> mainstream.
>>
>> /Stefan
>> _______________________________________________
>
> And Linux From Scratch puts then in /usr/bin/qt5
>
> /Dennis

If you check FHS about /usr/lib it clearly states that binaries are
allowed there for which the intention is not to be used directly by a
user. Even using libexec in this case would be wrong according to FHS.

/Stefan