Thanks a lot, I had never seen the porthier or the hier man pages (thanks jk for your private email). Very much appreciated as I now have even more appreciation for MacPorts and the layout of the land!
Cheers,
T.M.
On 8/16/07, N_Ox <n.oxyde@gmail.com> wrote:
Le 16 août 07 à 14:38, Tabitha McNerney a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that a relatively small number of MacPorts (but some of
> them being quite important such as slapd for OpenLDAP and mysqld)
> install binary executables into the {prefix}/libexec directory
> compared to the much more often used and larger {prefix}/bin
> directory.
>
> I'm curious what is the logic for having two separate directories
> one named "libexec" and the other named "bin"?
>
> Thank you,
>
> -T.M.
From porthier(7):
libexec/ system daemons & system utilities
(executed by
other programs)
--
Anthony Ramine, the infamous MacPorts Trac slave.
nox@macports.org