On 10/26/2011 03:18 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote: > On 10/26/2011 03:07 PM, Chris Adams wrote: >> Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones<rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> said: >>> Having said that, the split between /sbin and /bin is not a truly >>> historical one, ie. it didn't exist in V7. I think it was added by >>> System V which did a lot of other strange stuff too. >> >> Well, historically, a bunch of system utilities were in odd places like >> /etc and /usr/lib. The idea of /sbin and /usr/sbin was to get compiled >> executables out of those places (and to not clutter up the "normal" bin >> directories with stuff users didn't need). > > For daemons, which should not be called directly on the command line, I > would suggest to move them to /usr/lib/<packagename>/ anyway. Why? Just to be establish your own standards in violent ways? This use-case is exactly what /sbin or /usr/sbin traditionally have been for. Besides this, one may have the opinion, that no binaries should be allowed in /usr/lib/. Fedora never enforced this rule, because RH has a tradition of being sloppy wrt. /usr/lib/<package>. Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
