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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 16:09:40
Message-Id: 20051129160504.GH20234@toucan.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/libexec vs /usr/lib(32|64)/misc by Thomas de Grenier de Latour
1 On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:41:20PM +0100, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
2 > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:27:10 +0000
3 > Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > i know they are executables, that's why we're talking about a
6 > > specific subdir of lib
7 > >
8 > > libexec clutters /usr while /usr/lib/misc hides it nicely ...
9 > > afterall, this are internal binaries that end user should never
10 > > run themselves
11 >
12 > Random thought of the day: why not /usr/bin/misc?
13
14 subdirs are not allowed in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin or any other bin dir
15 -mike
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