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

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:06:34PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 11:38 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:56:32PM -0800, Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> > > 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).
> 
> I've been playing with re-writing the hal-power-* scripts in python,
> thus removing the problem (as python can do ioctls). Would this be
> acceptable as a solution?

Personally i would rather not have hald depending on python. The callouts
should be rather trivial programs, so i don't see the value of using python
instead of C. 

  Sjoerd
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