Re: Custom undocumented(7)s are just as bad.
> > I would expect that a mantainer have a little knowledge of his package. If
> > a binary is not meant to be called by the user, it is a bug to have it in
> > the PATH.
>
> Nicolas, this might show my naivite, but where should programs that aren't
> intended to be run by users go? I recall working on some old archaic and
> PITA SCO systems that quite a few useful programs end up in a lib directory,
> but then they also put important system binaries in /etc, and they have
> symlinks littering the whole tree, so that one could mount specific bits
> read only over the network...
e.g. cgi executables are in /usr/lib/cgi-bin;; dpkg has its "methods" in
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods; and many other examples...
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