libexec directory?

[N_Ox]

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)

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