On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:09:24AM -1000, Joseph Kowalski wrote: > > Correct. We agree those go in /usr/lib. > > > Well maybe. Certainly not /usr/bin, but perhaps we are starting to > add too much to the clutter. Sorta like sweeping the crumbs from one > room to another. > > BTW: The number of entries in /usr/lib used to be much more of a > performance issue than /usr/bin ever was (ld.so.1 does a lot more > stats than sh). I don't know the current state (maybe fast caches > lower this into the noise.)
Oh sure, I would be happy with /usr/lib/exec or /usr/libexec, or /usr/lib/<pkg>/... But I thought that all executables not to be run by users or sysadmins (e.g., daemons started by SMF) go into /usr/lib (having recently delivered such a thing...). Nico --
