On Wed, 02 Nov 2011, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > really? since when it is nitpicking to quote FHS verbatim? once > again: > > "The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, must be in > /usr/bin, if the corresponding subsystem is installed: > > Directory Description > mh Commands for the MH mail handling system (optional)"
There are exactly two packages in Debian which have subdirectories in /usr/bin: mailutils-mh, and nmh. Nothing else does this, and having mh do it in the first place seems to be a historical mistake. [The only other slight exception is /usr/bin/X11, and we've done away with that by making it X11 a symlink to .] A package which uses names that are so general that it conflicts with existing binary names and thus can't be stuck in /usr/bin by default probably shouldn't be normally executed directly by users or scripts in the first place. It shouldn't be encouraged to put such a package's directories into PATH, either. Don Armstrong -- Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects". -- Mark Twain _A Horse's Tail_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111102224627.gf26...@teltox.donarmstrong.com
