Fedora (Linux) is Destroying it self

[Ilyes Gouta]

Hi,

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. 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.

-Ilyes

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
<ivazqueznet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 09:56 +0100, Ilyes Gouta wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think it's a good idea to not throw everything in one location. May
>> be we should really introduce this as a feature for the next Fedora
>> releases. This would also help get rid of the /usr/bin directory,
>> introduce more flexibility in packages management and security.
>>
>> -Ilyes
>
> Every single path you add to $PATH makes it take longer to find an
> executable on the system. I currently have over 750 packages on my
> system with files in /usr/bin; are you proposing to add over 750 paths
> to $PATH?
>
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