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Re: libexecdir=/usr/sbin ?
On Jul 4 09:10, James R. Phillips wrote:
> --- Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Not sure about that, but the root idea of defining libexecdir as /usr/sbin
> > (way back when) was that I disliked the idea of inetutils to have
> > libexecdir defined as ${exec_prefix}/libexec by default. This is the
> > directory in which the daemons are installed and the daemons are (were)
> > installed in /usr/sbin on both of my Linux distros. And they are still
> > today, FWIW. And they still should, IMO.
>
> I see. So the default gives the desired result for inetutils, and perhaps for
> other similar system utilities.
s/perhaps/certainly/
It's also right for cron, OpenSSH, tcp-wrappers, ProFTP, ...
> However, I don't think it will be right for most user-space programs. It
> certainly isn't right for octave. Maybe that's OK, since it conforms to a
> newly elucidated principle of Maxium Surprise for the Packager (MSFTP), (R).
Well, yes and no. I'm wondering if libexecdir is used correctly
throughout all upstream packages. I'd be deeply surprised if so.
Corinna
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