Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes: > Mathias Gibbens <gibmat@debian.org> writes: > >> On Sun, 2024-04-21 at 18:47 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > ... >>> /usr/libexec/minio-client/bin/mc -> /usr/bin/mcli > > Might I suggest that the link goes the other way, so that the symlink > lives in /usr/bin? That way the existence of the lib directory is > somewhat self-documenting. > > If you're looking for examples, it seems that fd-find and binutils-avr > do something like this (although they seem to be linking into ../lib/ > presumably for historical reasons). It seems this approach could use some documentation, if we want to have some consistent implementation of this idea in Debian. While I usually dislike symlinks in /usr/bin/ I think there is some advantages. I'm also not sure where a good path component to store such binaries are, libexec or lib? Or share? /Simon
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