On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:17:12PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Can we agree that direct calls of libexec stuff should never be part > > > of the "official" interface (i.e. not workarounds for deprecated > > > usage)? > > > > Agreed. It looks somewhat strange to type the libexec path in > > /etc/passwd. > > FWIW I do not agree. IMNHO libexec/ is just a way to organize executable > parts of any software package that are usually not called from the command > line. And a login shell qualifies for that. > > > > Considering that calling the git-shell executable directly is the > > > _only_ sensible way of using this interface, it should follow that it > > > has to be in /usr/bin, no matter if users type this command or not. > > > > Perhaps, /usr/sbin would be a better place, as it is intended only for > > system administration binaries. > > Does it not strike you as odd, then, that "sh" -- by far the most common > login shell -- does not live in /usr/sbin/? But nologin is in /usr/sbin. Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
