Thus spake Ralph Corderoy: > Hi Ken, > > > The current tools, "ap", "dp", and "fmtdump", all live in $(libdir). > > I understand doing this for backend programs designed to be called by > > other programs, like post & mhl. But I never understood why those > > programs were installed there. Should this hypothetical test program > > be installed in $(libdir), or should it be installed in $(bindir) like > > all of the other nmh user-level executables? > > Is there a distro that puts nmh in /usr/bin and not /usr/bin/nmh? Only > I think the brevity of ap and dp should be for important commands, > commonly typed, so we shouldn't pollute the namespace by nabbing them > now for nmh. If it always needs the user to add nmh's bin to their PATH > then that's not so bad; they can decide whether they have nmh's or the > wider world's.
Fedora puts the ancilliary nmh commands in /usr/libexec/nmh. -- J. _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
