On 10/19/05, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/19/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do programs that are not designed to be run by end users (not even > > the root user), but instead are called internally by a library or > > other program belong in /usr/sbin? > > Some packages install programs that can be run by the user into > libexecdir. Instead of blindly using > --libexecdir=/usr/lib/packagename, the files installed into libexecdir > need to be evaluated before deciding whether these belong to > $prefix/sbin or or $prefix/lib or $prefix/lib/$package. That is, the > decision has to be made for each pacakge individually. >
FYI, providing examples for all situtations mentioned above: * openssh: --libexecdir=/usr/sbin to install the server into /usr/sbin. * gcc: --libexecdir=/usr/lib so that the files are installed in /usr/lib/gcc. * findutils: --libexecdir=/usr/lib/findutils so that auxillary executables are installed in /usr/lib/findutils. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
