If it makes the things more clear, for example, debbugs put it's mail filter (which is a executable) in /usr/lib/debbugs/ and it's not wrong according to the police (as I understood). A mail filter is a kind of translator (just loosely remembers). And as I think nobody wants to mess up /usr/lib, /hurd is a good place for them... Em Qua, 2002-05-22 às 16:36, Hubert Chan escreveu: > >>>>> "Emile" == Emile van Bergen <e-advies@evbergen.xs4all.nl> writes: > > [...] > > Emile> You could just as well argue that program that are primarily > Emile> intended to be ran from cron should be put somewhere other than > Emile> /bin, even though a user explicitly specifies himself that the > Emile> program must be run on his own behalf, and even though the > Emile> program follows normal exec()-style executable semantics. And > Emile> naturally, that's nonsense. > > Except that programs that are primarily run by cron still do something > useful when run from the command line. You can logrotate, updatedb, > etc. etc. before cron decides it's time to do it, just by running the > programs on the command line, if you ever feel the need to. > > On the other hand, translators generally don't do anything useful when > run from the command line, other than spitting out a warning message, as > has been mentioned many times during this discussion, and it doesn't > really make any sense to run them from the command line. > > -- > Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ > PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA > Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA > Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- Atenciosamente, Daniel Ruoso Desenvolvimento de Sistemas daniel@oktiva.com.br Oktiva Telecomunicações e Informática
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