directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?
Do we have any policy/recommendation forbidding/disadvising having
subdirectories under /usr/bin?
Conventionally, for packages which ship bulk of command line tools with
possible naming conflicts we seems to place them under /usr/lib/PACKAGE
(often regardless them being arch-dep or not)
I am packaging CMTK, where upstream agreed also to deliver a wrapper
script (/usr/bin/cmtk) so there would be a single point of entry to run
any needed command (in similar fashion to git), but also he made all
cmdline tools become available from ... /usr/bin/CMTK
I have checked FHS which only says:
"The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, must be in /usr/bin..."
so it seems to be ok to have subdirectories under /usr/bin (for /bin
there is strict "must not"), and I failed to find something in
debian policy forbidding or allowing taht. So would it be ok?
I kinda like that setup because then user doesn't need to
search anywhere under /usr/lib for a script I need from CMTK -- it
becomes available where I would expect it to find -- under
/usr/bin(/CMTK)
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