On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 03:16:45PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Mon, 13.06.11 13:41, Richard W.M. Jones (rjones(a)redhat.com)
wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 02:18:18PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > What is the benefit of a separate libexecdir?
>
> I guess because binaries shouldn't go in the library directory.
But it isn't a library directory. It's a directory for arch-depndendant
stuff, which includes (but is not limited to) libraries.
It's a directory for arch-dependent stuff that should only exist once on
a system, whereas lib is for arch-dependent stuff that may exist for
multiple architectures on one system. I have no opinion on whether that
distinction is important.
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