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Re: /usr/libexec



On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:30:16AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:58:55AM +0700, Bambang Purnomosidi D. P. wrote:
> > I am working with a package. From the author, it should be installed its
> > lib to /usr/libexec.
> > 
> > I already read FHS and this seems not conformant. I also looked at other
> > deb package, and they seems to install into /usr/lib/<package>
> > 
> > Is that right?
> 
> Yes. Binaries which users/administrators won't run directly should
> go into /usr/lib/<package>, anything that will be run directly should
> go in /usr/(s)bin.

s/Binaries/Architecture-dependent files/
s/run/use/g

Double-check that the files really are architecture-dependent. If not,
they belong in /usr/share.

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