Re: libexec dir

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

In chiark.mail.debian.devel, you wrote:
>     Is a libexec dir any kind of a standard?  My upstream has
>configured dictd to look for user-compiled plugins in
>/usr/local/libexec, and I have never heard of such a libexec
>directory. 

Traditionally, I believe that libexec is the home for exectuable
binaries that needn't be run directly by a user (including root).
Examples would be network daemons launched from inetd or the runtime
dynamic linker. We tend to put then in either lib or bin instead.

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