[Fedora-packaging] libexecdir, rpmlint, and Packaging Guidelines

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 13:03 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Yes.  I've been working under the impression that libexec is fine
> because the Core packagers have expressed good reasons for it to
> exist... but rpmlint complains about it.  Ville's position (correct IMO)
> is that rpmlint should follow FHS unless there's a specific exception in
> the Guidelines so it seemed time to formalize whether it's allowed or
> not. 

I certainly feel that this is a worthy exception in the Guidelines.  The
use of libexec has good reason is is not going to change.  rpmlint
should take note of this (:

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