* Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> [2003-03-18 12:20]: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:23:44PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: >> It seems that many packages have binaries under /usr/share, here are a few >> examples of regex's that match Debian-specific binaries under /usr/share: >> /usr/share/debiandoc-sgml/saspconvert >> /usr/share/lintian/.+ >> /usr/share/kernel-package/.+ >> /usr/share/bug/[^/]+ >> /usr/share/console/getkmapchoice\.pl >> /usr/share/openoffice\.org-debian-files/install-hook >> /usr/share/dlint/digparse >> /usr/share/gimp/1.2/user_install Russell, those are _NOT_ binaries but scripts. Please don't call them binaries, that just confuses the people and make them scream. Call them executeables, if you like. >> I suggest that we have a standard for names of such files. Something like >> /usr/share/package/bin/.+ would do well. That will make things a lot easier >> for SE Linux users (and users of other security systems). > > Why not simply /usr/share/bin ? Because those scripts aren't meant to be called directly by users and are on intention hidden. If you drop them all in a single directory you will end up with people adding that to their $PATH, IMHO, which is not prefered. So long! Alfie -- <wenz> quit <wenz> ~/quit -!- wenz [~hoshi@pD900E60C.dip.t-dialin.net] has quit [ircII2.8.2-EPIC3.004 --- Bloatware at its finest.] -- #debian.de
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