Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes: > We already have $pkglibdir and $pkgdatadir for those. There is no > technical need for a new directory in /usr, and it doesn’t improve > anything for users. Possibly not for the users, but it _certainly_ improves the environment for system and application administrators. Some applications (for instance: inn and mailman) have a lot of executables which only makes sense when you're in the context of that application user, so having a /usr/libexec/<package> in the path for that user makes life as an application administrator easier. -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm@debian.org>
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