[ILUG] file management

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Paul Kelly wrote:

> I don't want a three mile long $PATH, 

neither would i. but i wouldn't mind it having maybe 10ish definitions 
in it.

/usr/bin on a typical redhat box these days is simply insane.

[root at dunlop scripts]# ls -l /usr/bin/ | wc -l
   1744

urggg..

> and I'd rather not have an ld.so.conf that doesn't fit on an A4
> page. 

why not? it's a file... who cares if it's long.

> Can't good for you. But it would be nice to see at least the data
> files and support scripts/binaries in a separate directory. Like
> having /usr/netscape/ with a symlink to the main binary
> /usr/netscape/netscape in /usr/bin/

i'd like to see seperate dirs for well-defined and common collections 
of programmes.

eg gnome.

that really really ought to be under it's own dir.

> Paul.

--paulj