On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 13:26 +0100, Ilyes Gouta wrote: > Obviously one has to set up $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to get programs > running properly. /usr/bin would be populated with scripts that do > exactly that so that the change is transparent to the user. How then is this an advantage over having the binaries in /usr/bin directly? > But that's > really the implementation part of the idea, let's stick to the concept > for the moment.. Isn't having one folder per application a nice > feature? What I'm emphasizing here is separation for more flexibility. It's real cute to be all hand-wavy and say "I think this and this and this", but at the end of the day if someone doesn't do it then it doesn't get done. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet@xxxxxxxxx> PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already subscribed
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