Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?
On Wed, 02 Nov 2011, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> really? since when it is nitpicking to quote FHS verbatim? once
> again:
>
> "The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, must be in
> /usr/bin, if the corresponding subsystem is installed:
>
> Directory Description
> mh Commands for the MH mail handling system (optional)"
There are exactly two packages in Debian which have subdirectories in
/usr/bin: mailutils-mh, and nmh. Nothing else does this, and having mh
do it in the first place seems to be a historical mistake. [The only
other slight exception is /usr/bin/X11, and we've done away with that
by making it X11 a symlink to .]
A package which uses names that are so general that it conflicts with
existing binary names and thus can't be stuck in /usr/bin by default
probably shouldn't be normally executed directly by users or scripts
in the first place. It shouldn't be encouraged to put such a package's
directories into PATH, either.
Don Armstrong
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