Bug 625452 – KF-5 based packages install to wrong libexec

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gino McCarty 2017-07-17 17:42:22 UTC]

Should be /usr/libexec not /usr/lib/libexec
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$ equery b /usr/lib/libexec
 * Searching for /usr/lib/libexec ... 
kde-apps/kalarm-17.04.3 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-apps/kwalletmanager-17.04.3 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-frameworks/frameworkintegration-5.34.0 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-frameworks/kauth-5.34.0 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-frameworks/kconfig-5.34.0 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-frameworks/kdelibs4support-5.34.0 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-frameworks/kdesu-5.34.0 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-frameworks/kinit-5.34.0 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-frameworks/kio-5.34.0-r2 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-frameworks/ktexteditor-5.34.0 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-frameworks/kwayland-5.34.0 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-frameworks/kxmlgui-5.34.0 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-plasma/kde-cli-tools-5.9.5-r1 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-plasma/kscreenlocker-5.9.5 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-plasma/kwin-5.9.5 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-plasma/libkscreen-5.9.5 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-plasma/libksysguard-5.9.5 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.9.5 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.9.5.1-r2 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-plasma/polkit-kde-agent-5.9.5 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-plasma/powerdevil-5.9.5 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
kde-plasma/sddm-kcm-5.9.5 (/usr/lib64/libexec)
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[Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner 2017-07-22 08:02:16 UTC]

This is the standard path set by extra-cmake-modules' KDEInstallDirs.

[Comment 2 Gino McCarty 2017-07-22 15:52:11 UTC]

(In reply to Andreas Sturmlechner from comment #1)
> This is the standard path set by extra-cmake-modules' KDEInstallDirs.


OK, Looks like 2 options

1. add `-DKDE_INSTALL_LIBEXECDIR=/usr/libexec` to all packages

2. modify  /usr/share/ECM/kde-modules/KDEInstallDirs.cmake in kde-frameworks/extra-cmake-modules and reinstall all packages

could change the ebuild to include the following 
`sed -i -e 's:_define_relative(LIBEXECDIR LIBDIR "libexec":_define_relative(LIBEXECDIR EXECROOTDIR "libexec":' /usr/share/ECM/kde-modules/KDEInstallDirs.cmake`

[Comment 3 Gino McCarty 2018-07-08 19:30:56 UTC]

can you please take action here.. KDE is the only package that does this in all of gentoo.. its trivial for you all to fix these in ebuilds without patches

[Comment 4 Andreas Sturmlechner 2018-07-13 20:54:14 UTC]

(In reply to GinoM from comment #3)
> its trivial for you all to fix these in ebuilds without patches
This was low-piority so far, but the EAPI-7 bump is a good opportunity to fix it in eclass, and is in progress in kde overlay already.

[Comment 5 Andreas Sturmlechner 2019-01-26 15:55:38 UTC]

Just checked in opensuse which does not change the default (same as Gentoo).
Same with Debian, who just use a more complicated multiarch subdir scheme.
Arch is changing the path to LIBDIR/kf5 instead.

I'm not sure this is worth the hassle and ensuing breakage.

[Comment 6 Andreas Sturmlechner 2019-01-26 16:21:43 UTC]

Qt5 is using the following path:

/usr/$(get_libdir)/qt5/libexec/

Based on that, the next best thing would be to use instead:

/usr/$(get_libdir)/kf5/libexec/


Since the current path is not wrong, consistent among all ECM revdeps, and not leaking executables directly into /usr/lib64 (as with Arch), this change would be purely cosmetical.

[Comment 7 Andreas Sturmlechner 2019-01-26 16:27:36 UTC]

Calling it off for EAPI-7 at least.

[Comment 8 Andreas Sturmlechner 2019-01-26 20:55:48 UTC]

FreeBSD does not change the default either. Closing WONTFIX.