changing the install location of hal-system-power-pmu to libexec

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Fri Feb 17 03:38:24 PST 2006


On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:56:32PM -0800, Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> 
> >to /usr/share/hal/scripts, as it's quite clearly not a script.
> >
> >In CVS, the hal-power-brightness-* scripts assume it's in the latter, so
> >don't work for pmu at the moment. [1]
> 
> Why can't we just rename directory from an implementation attribute to 
> something that answers the question "What's in this directory?" Because the 
> answer "scripts" only sparks one's curiosity: "What kinda scripts? Can I 
> put any script in it?" Calling it "method" or something is less ambiguous.

Just renaming it isn't an option unless it also moves out of /usr/share 
- compiled C code has to go under /usr/lib (or libexec).

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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