On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 09:11 -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> I think people also
> want to be able to limit the number of files that accidentally have the
> execute bit set (which is surprisingly common); on a system with
> libexec, the package system can raise red flags whenever files in lib
> end up being accidentally executable.

It also makes it a tiny bit easier to write SELinux policy, although
admittedly RHEL/Fedora are the only mainstream distros that would care.

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