On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 11:43:08AM +0000, Justin Haaheim wrote: > The same reason you decided to spend the time to make that little ascii > picture. ;-) man banner > On a slightly more serious note: > 1) users should be able to customize how things are set up on their > computer. Hell, even windows lets you move around default directories. Cool, customize it. > 2) standardization. installers should look to one place to find out > where to install themselves instead of assuming or guessing and getting > programs installed in /usr/lib/ and /usr/local etc. etc. (not /etc). "Which would that place be?" "/foo" "What if I fancy to move /foo to /baz?" "You configure that into /metabar/superfoo." "But I don't have a metabar either: it is bluesky on my machine." Do you see where this is getting? You have to agree on a fixed point in the system that will describe it to the world. > the point is not that we need to change it, its that it should be > dynamic enough so that it's possible. Laying it out the way I suggested > is just basic abstraction. Every program shouldn't know where it's > going to be installed on person x's computer. It is possible, you just lose what the distributions can do for you. If you do a ./configure --help on a behaving source distribution, it allows you to set all the files to your heart content. *** A user decides what goes on within his own home directory. He has no business mucking around /. If he does, he gets to keep the pieces... Cheers, florin -- "NT is to UNIX what a doughnut is to a particle accelerator." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030505/0cbb95e5/attachment.pgp