[cups.general] CUPS looking for "hpcups" in wrong directory

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Sat Aug 29 07:17:29 PDT 2009


On Aug 29, 2009, at 3:47 AM, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 10:40 -0700, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> Probably the simplest fix would be to have the Linux distros  
>> provide a
>> symlink from /usr/lib64/cups to /usr/lib/cups so that third-party (or
>> distro-provided) packages install everything in one place.
>
> I still don't really understand why you won't use /usr/libexec/cups/  
> for
> this.


/usr/libexec is not a FHS directory, and changing from /usr/lib/cups  
to anything else is bound to cause problems (as this user's problems  
attests to...)

We *do* use /usr/libexec on *BSD and Mac OS X, since those operating  
systems define and use it.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer







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