RedHat, Fedora future?

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Feb 6 17:45:56 UTC 2004


Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>> If you look at the description of in the standards it for /usr/lib it 
>> states "... that are not intended to be executed directly by users or 
>> shell scripts."  This contradicts their own statement about putting 
>> applications in a subdirectory, go figure.
> 
> 
> It's not really a contradiction. The mozilla package is installed in 
> /usr/lib/mozilla-*, but the users (and any of their shell scripts) are 
> expected to execute /usr/bin/mozilla.
> 
> Nothing in /usr/lib/mozilla-* is intended to be executed *directly* by 
> users or scripts, and it should not appear in any user's PATH or MANPATH.
> 
> 

But /usr/lib/mozilla is being executed by users, and is only a link to 
/usr/lib/mozilla-*.  But being in /usr/lib means it should not be 
executed by users or shell scripts.  Confusion reigns.

-- 
Robin Laing





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