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.
