[83340] trunk/dports/graphics/librsvg/Portfile

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Aug 30 21:56:50 PDT 2011


On 2011-8-31 07:21 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Aug 30, 2011, at 05:17, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
>> On 2011-8-30 14:56 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> +    xinstall -m 755 -W ${buildpath} svg2pdf \
>>>> +        ${destroot}${prefix}/sbin
>>>
>>> It's not a server binary; it is a program the user is intended to run directly. As such, shouldn't it be in ${prefix}/bin instead?
>>
>> You're right for the wrong reason; the s in sbin is not for "server".
> 
> Either way, point is, sbin is for programs the user does not invoke directly; bin is for programs the user does invoke directly.

Now you're thinking of libexec. As per hier(7), /usr/sbin and by analogy
${prefix}/sbin are for "system daemons & system utilities (executed by
users)".

- Josh


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