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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: git binary directory?
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 06:00:49 +0100
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On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:12:30AM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> > > Now, I happen to think that 2500+ files in /usr/bin is a bit much (ever 
> > > try to use the horrid gnome executable finder on it when you want to 
> > > convince firefox to use xpdf instead of that broken crap called "evince"? 
> > > Takes absolutely ages and is horrible).
> > >
> > > And git made it about 4% worse all on its own.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Since we do not have enough clout to have /usr/bin/git/ and ask
> > the users to put that in their PATH like X11 does,
> 
> That is going away. No more /usr/X11R6/{bin,lib,man} junk.
> 
> >                                                    we need to
> > teach some of our commands that use other git commands to
> > prepend /usr/lib/git/ (or /usr/libexec/git)
> 
> AFAIU, /usr/libexec/git (or /usr/libexec/git-<version>) would be better.

Note that "libexec" is not LSB conform - whatever that means, but it
should probably not be used for new projects. It states: "Applications
may use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib."

Kay