Use of bin versus libexec

Jonathan Marten jjm2 at keelhaul.demon.co.uk
Thu Sep 20 15:43:36 BST 2012


Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org> writes:
> Agreed. It is important, however, to remember that some of those (e.g. 
> akonadiserver, akonadi_control) are not KDE programs and can therefore not be 
> in a KDE specific libexec location but have to go into a standard (FHS or 
> freedesktop.org) location for that purpose.

Thanks for the clarification Kevin.  Perhaps a better place for those
Akonadi executables would then be $KDEDIR/libexec - this location
isn't in the LSB/FHS but many packages which still use GNU Autoconf
use it.  IIRC KDE3 had the same.

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