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Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?



Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Nov 02, Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> wrote:
> 
> > Do we have any policy/recommendation forbidding/disadvising  having
> > subdirectories under /usr/bin?
> We have the FHS, which says that you do not do this.

Where? Section 4.5. /usr/bin Most User Commands[1] specfically allows
directories, going so far as to explictly mentioning one directory, and
mandating a link to another directory.

You may be thinking of Section 3.4.2 Requirements[2] which forbids
directories; however that section refers only to /bin.

  [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.pdf pg 19
  [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.pdf pg 5

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