On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:34:09PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > This definition is really quite poor if you put too much emphasis on > the "ever". "swapon", for example, is clearly a tool for the admin, > but a user might decide one day to run it just see which version of the > program is installed on the system. Well, let's not get carried away. That's a diagnostic on the tool itself and tells you nothing about the system. If all an unprivileged user of a command can do with a program is get help, the version info, its license, and similar bits of info, I don't think it qualifies for /usr. After all, such things can be (and often are) in the program's manual page, and we don't leave section 8 out of users' MANPATHs. Contrariwise, you can't read ifconfig's manpage to find out what interfaces are currently up on your system. -- G. Branden Robinson | It doesn't matter what you are doing, Debian GNU/Linux | emacs is always overkill. branden@debian.org | -- Stephen J. Carpenter http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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