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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/libexec vs /usr/lib(32|64)/misc
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:31:31
Message-Id: 20051129152710.GE20234@toucan.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/libexec vs /usr/lib(32|64)/misc by "Olivier Crête"
1 On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:18:05AM -0500, Olivier Cr?te wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2005-29-11 at 14:53 +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:23:54PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote:
4 > > > what's the official status of /usr/libexec directory?
5 > >
6 > > personally, i'd prefer if we moved all of /usr/libexec to /usr/lib/misc
7 >
8 > Why move the libexec content to libdir? They are all executables, not
9 > libraries. Its in the same category as /usr/bin.
10
11 i know they are executables, that's why we're talking about a specific
12 subdir of lib
13
14 libexec clutters /usr while /usr/lib/misc hides it nicely ... afterall,
15 this are internal binaries that end user should never run themselves
16 -mike
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/libexec vs /usr/lib(32|64)/misc Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>
Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/libexec vs /usr/lib(32|64)/misc "Olivier Crête" <tester@g.o>