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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:05:04 +0000
From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/libexec vs /usr/lib(32|64)/misc
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:41:20PM +0100, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:27:10 +0000
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > i know they are executables, that's why we're talking about a
> > specific subdir of lib
> > 
> > libexec clutters /usr while /usr/lib/misc hides it nicely ...
> > afterall, this are internal binaries that end user should never
> > run themselves
> 
> Random thought of the day: why not /usr/bin/misc?

subdirs are not allowed in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin or any other bin dir
-mike
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