Fedora (Linux) is Destroying it self

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

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 at gmail.com>

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