why would one never keep a library in one's home directory?  keeping the 
structure the same would make it easier to bind $home/$cputype 
before/after /$cputype.

$0.02
- erik

On Thu Aug 17 09:08:52 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> /386 contains much more than just binaries, while $home/bin/386
> contains only that: binaries.
> 
> i think the rationale was that having a directory for each
> architecture back when 386 wasn't the dominant one would clutter
> $home. we rarely spend any time in / after all. besides, Plan 9
> shouldn't expose the architecture to the user right at the front line:
> what the current arch is was not meant to be something we ought to
> care about.
> 
> i could be wrong, of course.

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