[systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] systemd-bootchart: merge bootchart.

[Kok, Auke-jan H]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Kok, Auke-jan H
> <auke-jan.h.kok at intel.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
>
>>> Does this mean that there'll be a file in /etc/systemd/ always?
>>> This goes against the practice of moving default configuration
>>> to /usr.
>>
>> no, the defaults are perfectly fine and ordinary users should have no
>> need to modify any of the settings. We can opt to not install the
>> config file by default as well.
>
> It would be fine to install a file with the defaults (ideally
> everything commented out) in /etc. The goal is that there is no
> difference in behaviour if this config file is not around.

That's how it currently works...

>>> Also, if the binary is supposed to be invoked directly,
>>> then is should go into /usr/bin, not /usr/libexec.
>>
>> /usr/lib/systemd - not /usr/libexec. And systemd-readahead also has a
>> "analyze" option that is for interactive use, so that folder should
>> really be fine.
>
> We should be in general very careful with installing things in
> /usr/bin. We make a kind of promise by doing that. Only things that we
> consider ABI, and things we intend to keep stable should be in
> /usr/bin, if in doubt, /usr/lib/systemd/ is in most cases the better
> choice.

I have a secondary motivation to put it in /usr/lib/systemd - there are
other bootchart implementations around and I'd like to draw a clear
line in between the systemd version and the others. Putting it as
"systemd-bootchart" in /usr/lib/systemd accomplishes that.

Auke