* Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <s...@debian.org> [111107 09:55]:
> Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > We already have $pkglibdir and $pkgdatadir for those. There is no
> > technical need for a new directory in /usr, and it doesn’t improve
> > anything for users.
> 
> Possibly not for the users, but it _certainly_ improves the environment
> for system and application administrators.
> 
> Some applications (for instance: inn and mailman) have a lot of
> executables which only makes sense when you're in the context of that
> application user, so having a /usr/libexec/<package> in the path for
> that user makes life as an application administrator easier.

How is /usr/libexec/<package> better than /usr/lib/<package> in these
cases?

...Marvin


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