Kow K wrote:
The "shallowness" of /sw directory is pretty handy. It's an "island" well isolated from other critical areas. ...Years ago, when I used to use Windows 98, I ran into a lot of software with this way of thinking. Most software was able to live peacefully under 'C:\Program Files', but there were always the few things which required that they live on the top level of the hard drive. So I'd end up with 'C:\Oracle' and 'C:\Cdrom' and 'C:\UltraHLE' and a whole smattering of other top-level directories for software which hardcoded its path and felt it 'deserved' to live at the top of the hard drive because 'C:\Program Files\Oracle' was just too long and cumbersome. ;-)
I'm afraid that most Fink users, current or future, get intimidated if /sw is deeply embeded in /usr/local/fink.
Why didn' Darwin discover his Finches in islands with much shorter names? Having a directory /galapagos looks too anti-Unix-y.A major point of Darwin's work was that many different species can all coexist in the same place together and in fact depend on each other for survival. Take those finches and put them on an island all by themselves with no other animals around (no insects to pollinate the flowers, no predators to keep their population down and weed out the less-capable), and they'll eventually die out.
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