On 21/05/10 13:29, Kaiting Chen wrote:
Hi I was wondering why the policy was to not use /usr/libexec and move what
should go there to /usr/lib/<pkgname>. While it isn't serious it seems to me
that this deviation from the default behavior is unnecessary. One scenario I
can think of where this might cause a problem is if a very security
conscious administrator wanted to mount /usr/lib as noexec.
The libexec directory is not specified in the FHS. See
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ .
Importantly, /usr/lib/ is not excluded from having binaries.
"/usr/lib includes object files, libraries, and internal binaries that
are not intended to be executed directly by users or shell scripts."
Allan
