Thanks a lot, I had never seen the porthier or the hier man pages (thanks jk
for your private email). Very much appreciated as I now have even more
appreciation for MacPorts and the layout of the land!
Cheers,
T.M.
On 8/16/07, N_Ox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Le 16 août 07 à 14:38, Tabitha McNerney a écrit :
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that a relatively small number of MacPorts (but some of
> > them being quite important such as slapd for OpenLDAP and mysqld)
> > install binary executables into the {prefix}/libexec directory
> > compared to the much more often used and larger {prefix}/bin
> > directory.
> >
> > I'm curious what is the logic for having two separate directories
> > one named "libexec" and the other named "bin"?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > -T.M.
>
> From porthier(7):
> libexec/ system daemons & system utilities
> (executed by
> other programs)
>
> --
> Anthony Ramine, the infamous MacPorts Trac slave.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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