On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:41:59 +0300 Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org.ua> wrote:
> > Why do you suppose it should reside in bin? Inetutils installs it (and > other utils as well) in $prefix/libexec. Use --libexecdir=DIR option > to direct it some other place. /bin is the 'traditional' place for it (i know you give a damn on tradition and good rites!). so i tried to find it where i found the latter. i never expected it in libexec though because, in a sane world, there weren't a folder called libexec that contains main bin's. to me lib-exec is already a sick term. and, the fhs definition of a lib<qual> folder does _not_ include this usage. and the folder is in the way when trying to autocomplete to lib/ with tab. to be more concrete about this: libexec is a sick folder, which is there now. however, tools park secondary stuff there. for example, udev parks cdrom_id and stuff there. udevd itself is in sbin. hal parked things like hald-addon-macbookpro-backlight there but hald is in sbin. to be continued... in further other words: re-think your position because it is not standard conformant (like libexec itself) and does not reflect common usage. thanks for listening! > > the point is that on *nix it is common to document all entities > > GNU's not UNIX, and therefore its policies differ from those of UNIX. > One of these differences is about how the proper documentation must > be organized. is GNU against *nix? don't treat the elders so badly! and, remember that GNU leans on *nix and that GNU software is most commonly used on *nix systems. in other words: the info system is the info system, and the man system is the man system. there is no collision between them. so, if you create bad man pages, or drop some, this is just an individual behaviour but has nothing to do with GNU policies, i suppose. otherwise this is another reason against GNU. > The -? option is quite often used in GNU implementations as a > shorthand for --help, so there was no "breaking traditions" here. > Try `tar -?', as an example. try sed -h and see how nicely a GNU tool can come along with good rites (which doesn't forbid sed -? in parallel.) why so separatistic??? i don't get the sense of this split. what is wrong with -h that you discriminate its further use? is good habits and practices, routine and normality, and all what makes the live of an admin easier (especially in mixed environments) just worthless to you? > Regards, > Sergey best wisehs, MeloDramus <melodra...@online.de>
