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From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/libexec dead ?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 05:09:41
Message-Id: 20040624050309.GK18367@mustard.flatmonk.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/libexec dead ? by Drake Wyrm
1 Drake Wyrm wrote: [Wed Jun 23 2004, 02:34:55AM EDT]
2 > Looking in my own /usr/libexec, though, it seems like everything there
3 > already has a better place somewhere else. Some could go in /usr/bin or
4 > /usr/sbin (e.g. mozilla-launcher).
5
6 Definitely not that one. When it lived in /usr/bin I just got lots of
7 bugs that it didn't work because people tried to run it directly.
8 It's supposed to be accessed via symlinks only:
9
10 /usr/bin/mozilla -> /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher
11 /usr/bin/firefox -> /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher
12 /usr/bin/thunderbird -> /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher
13
14 Regards,
15 Aron
16
17 --
18 Aron Griffis
19 Gentoo Linux Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/libexec dead ? Drake Wyrm <wyrm@×××××.com>