Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that Red Hat has a lot of programs under /usr/libexec that are > under /usr/lib in Debian. One example is /usr/lib/postfix > vs /usr/libexec/postfix. > > It seems to me that /usr/libexec is a better name for such things, and having > the same directory names used across distributions provides real benefits
The File Hierarchy Standard[0] uses /usr/lib for these kinds of things and LSB 2.1 explicitly referes to FHS for how the file hierarchy should be laied out. So unless Red HAt is pushing for the relevant standards to be changed I believe we should stick to the standards just so the same directory names may be used acress distributions. 0) http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLIBLIBRARIESFORPROGRAMMINGANDPA /usr/lib includes object files, libraries, and internal binaries that are not intended to be executed directly by users or shell scripts. -- Peter Makholm | According to the hacker ethic, the meaning of life [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is not Friday, but it is not Sunday either http://hacking.dk | -- Pekka Himanen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
