Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 01:28, Goswin von Brederlow
<brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> > Why would it be desirable to have arch-os directories under libexec?
On fedora-devel Bill Nottingham suggested having /usr/lib vs /usr/lib64 for
programs that care about such things and /usr/libexec for programs that
don't.
> 32bit mozilla with flash plugin and 64bit mozilla without. A lot of
> people seem to want that.
Bill's idea seems to work in that case. Although as you would need different
names in /usr/bin it might make sense to just name the libexec files with the
same extension as the file in /usr/bin that launches them.
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