On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 13:35 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 21/10/09 at 23:25 +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > usr/bin/mpd > > Decklin, what are your thoughts on this? Would it make sense to move the > Music Playing Daemon's mpd binary to /usr/sbin/, and the manpage to > section 8? I have the impression (perhaps wrongly) that mpd is mainly > start via an init script, so it wouldn't hurt too badly. > > The problem is that mpd is a key binary in the mpich2 package, > referenced all over the place, and it would really be confusing for > users to rename it to (say) mpich2-mpd.
IIRC mpd can be started/used by non-privileged users, so moving to /usr/sbin would be wrong. Plus, I think having unrelated binaries of the same name in /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin would be even more confusing than the current state. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
