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Re: missing FHS archives



On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 06:15:43PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
>     Marcus> GNU (read: the Hurd) is using /libexec (we don't have
>     Marcus> /usr) as well.  It is a good idea for some stuff IMHO.
>     Marcus> The FHS should probably reconsider its point of view.
> 
> I think /usr/libexec (or /libexec on the Hurd) is a good
> place to put small daemons like telnetd, ftpd, etc, that
> only have one file (the executable).

indeed, which is also the default location GNU inetutils puts them in
(however, I override it in the Debian package for now).

Marcus

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