On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Miloslav Trmač <mitr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, >> I confess I've only seen /usr/libexec used for add-on utilities, but >> now I'm curious. >> >> Does it make more sense for these sort of scripts to live in >> /usr/libexec, or in /usr/share? > > /usr/libexec. From (info standards): > >> `libexecdir' >> The directory for installing executable programs to be run by other >> programs rather than by users. > The thing that threw me is that I poked around in /usr/share and found this: $ cat /bin/createrepo #!/bin/sh exec /usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py "$@" Given what you're saying, would this be considered a bug in createrepo? There are a lot of Python files in /usr/share, but createrepo was one that's the most obvious to me (simply shelling out to a file in /usr/share). Similarly, there are a lot of executable files: (find /usr/share/ -executable -type f) Are these all bugs? - Ken -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
