On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 01:09:31AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 04 novembre 2011 à 21:21 +0000, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > It's not a GNU invention; I believe it derives from BSD. > > I stand corrected. That doesn’t make it have any more sense, though. > > > Apparently it's for executables that don't belong in the path (rarely > > used from interactive shells or scripts). > > We already have $pkglibdir and $pkgdatadir for those.
Those serve a different purpose. There's also a $pkglibexecdir, which is explicitly for that purpose. It's very odd that as an upstream (where Debian is the upstream!), I'm using $pkglibexecdir and then have to make it the same as $pkglibdir for no good reason. I would typically be using $pkglibdir for loadable modules and the like, rather than executables. libexecdir is a good place for executables called by programs rather than by users. I'd like to be able to make use of it. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- 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/20111107183132.gm28...@codelibre.net
