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



Le lundi 07 novembre 2011 à 01:26 +0100, Andreas Bombe a écrit : 
> I for one could see the tcpd case make sense… It does not belong on
> root's $PATH, but since it needs to be available to other packages (such
> as inetd) it can't be put in /usr/lib/$PACKAGE because then calling it
> would depend on knowing the package providing that binary, an
> implementation detail that might change.

Nothing forces us to use /usr/lib/$PACKAGE. For a common interface
shared between several packages, it is frequent to
use /usr/lib/somethingelse.

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