On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:34:45AM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote: > On 10/26/2011 06:21 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > In context, at least, this is wrong advice as it's a violation of the FHS: > > > > http://pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE22 > > > > """ > > Purpose > > /usr/lib includes object files, libraries, and internal binaries that are > > not intended to be executed directly by users or shell scripts. > > [..] > > Specific Options > > > > For historical reasons, /usr/lib/sendmail must be a symbolic link to > > /usr/sbin/sendmail if the latter exists. > > """ > > > > The daemons and such were in places like /usr/lib to begin with. This was > > deemed to be the wrong place for them. Instead they were placed into /sbin. > > > > You may be quibbling over the use of "shell scripts" in that section as you > > might think that daemons aren't run from shell scripts in systemd and that > > illustrates that shell scripts were only an implementation detail in sysv. > > In doing so, however, you miss out on "internal binaries". A daemon > > executable is the public entry point into a service so they aren't internal. > > > > -Toshio > > > > And I want to point to > http://pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#FTN.AEN1394 , which you omitted: > > Applications may use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib. If an > application uses a subdirectory, all architecture-dependent data > exclusively used by the application must be placed within that > subdirectory. [23] > I may have omitted it but I did not fail to read and understand it. The FHS is here specifying that architecture-dependent *data* may live in /ust/lib. You want to move programs there. Programs are only specified in the section I quoted earlier about "internal binaries". -Toshio
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