Re: [dev] app locations?

From: <alp_AT_alexpilon.ca>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:19:28 -0400

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 07:03:59PM +0300, Ali H. Fardan wrote:
> /bin - for binaries that come with the system

So they never get maintained with a package manager? Sounds like a
really weird way of doing things. If you bootstrap with a tarball, the
distinction becomes meaningless once you've updated packages with a
package manager.

Some of us currently use package managers that bootstrap the system
though.

> /usr/local/bin - is for binaries installed by the user without using the
> package manager

So /local/bin now?

> */sbin - is nonsense

Details? Do you mean because it should be root:root 700, but everybody
has it in their $PATH anyway? Or do you mean because permissions on the
binaries themselves is good enough? Or because protections on the
resources accessed by the binaries is good enough? Or because you just
don't like splitting things into four?
Received on Mon Oct 17 2016 - 18:19:28 CEST