[ILUG] file management

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, kevin lyda wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 06:43:48PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> > grumble... been a pet peeve of mine for a long while..
> 
> oh god, you don't have to be wrong *all* the time.  sheesh.

:)

> i actually run apps from the commandline (gnome-help-browser, galeon,
> soffice, xterm, gnome-terminal, xmms spring to mind right off the bat).
> i'd rather PATH would stay it's nice, readable single line.
> 
> face it, redhat and debian have pushed through a major advance over
> older unicies.  decent package management.  and that means that the
> piss-poor method of "package management" used by older unicies - aka
> the sacred directory concept - can be happily consigned to the scrap heap.

yep. i very much agree..

referring to first paragraph though. the reason to move big 
collections of related software to their own subdir is precisey to 
avoid PATH pollution.

if i ssh in to my desktop, i do not need 1700+ binaries available 
through PATH, esp. furkin GNOME stuff.

anyway, whatever the arguments regarding package management, PATH and
ld.so.conf, the biggest reason it's "wrong" is that relying on a
system that on a normalish installation keeps 2k files in one ferkin
dir, with no upper limit (how big would /usr/bin/ be if you installed
everything on a RH install?) is not good.

it's just plain ferkin "wrong".

eg, try an ls -l of /usr/bin/ on a RH system on a slow connection. 
bugger it, you'll be hitting ^C really quickly (and you'll wait due to 
buffering).

there's a reason directories were invented...

> this is just my opinion of course...

well, imo the problem here is that you've got the direction of your
first sentence back to front mister kevin "for (;;) { select(..., ...,
..., ...., 0); }" lyda.

:)

> kevin

--paulj