libexec directory?

[Tabitha McNerney]

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.
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