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Re: [vulture@aoi.dyndns.org: Bug#100744: Binary should be in /usr/bin, since it's useful to non-admins.]



On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:13:21AM -0400, Ilia Lobsanov wrote:
> I'm new on this list, but it occurred to me that the 'mtr' (Matt's
> Traceroute) package installs its binary into /usr/bin
> 
> So then, why the inconsistency between mtr and traceroute, if their purpose
> is the same?

well it's basicly because of a point of view.

traceroute is considered as admin tool and mrt as user tool (for me they
are both user tools)

this brings us to even better question why is nmap in /usr/bin?

Sami

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