RedHat, Fedora future?

Bevan C. Bennett bevan at fulcrummicro.com
Fri Feb 6 17:25:43 UTC 2004


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.





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