On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 04:57:45PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * matthew green > > | /usr/lib/freebsd/bin seems gross to me. > > it's not worse than having /usr/lib/news/bin, which exists today. > > : [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib > ls -d */bin > egnome/bin/ j2re1.3/bin/ kaffe/bin/ news/bin/ smalleiffel/bin/ > egtk/bin/ j2sdk1.3/bin/ mailman/bin/ postgresql/bin/ xcdroast-0.98/bin/ > : [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib > > > so it would actually be following normal practice.
3 comments: 1) The proper place for 'binaries not meant to be called by normal users' is, in theory, 'libexec' (probably meaning /usr/libexec for most things). 2) The current FHS doesn't have #1, so the next most proper place for it would, indeed, be somewhere under /usr/lib (/usr/lib/freebsd being a fairly obvious choice). As noted above, having 'bin' under lib is fine for things that aren't mostly for user running. 3) There have been at least two massive threads on debian-devel on this already. Can we try to avoid a third? Unless and until the freebsd port is ready to release (by which time things may be saner), it can be put in /frobitz and it really won't matter... -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
