Hello John, On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:45:00AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Jochen Voss writes: > > until now I was under the impression that /usr/bin/ should only contain > > programs which are expected to be directly called by users. > > > In bug #292759 the maintainer of gettext-base claims, that it is also ok > > to install shell script sniplets, which are not executable on itself into > > /usr/bin/ > > You are correct. Fine :-) Any references for this? I was a little bit disappointed that the FHS was so unclear about /usr/bin and I do not know where else to look. Maybe we should add something like "no non-programs in /usr/bin" to policy if it is nowhere else? All the best, Jochen -- http://seehuhn.de/
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