On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 04:33:33PM +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Josselin Mouette <[email protected]> writes: > > > We already have $pkglibdir and $pkgdatadir for those. There is no > > technical need for a new directory in /usr, and it doesnt improve > > anything for users. > > Possibly not for the users, but it _certainly_ improves the environment > for system and application administrators. > > Some applications (for instance: inn and mailman) have a lot of > executables which only makes sense when you're in the context of that > application user, so having a /usr/libexec/<package> in the path for > that user makes life as an application administrator easier.
That seems no different from having, say, /usr/lib/news/bin in the path, as at present. Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
