On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Example: The package super-database contains 6 binary executables used to > mantail the super-database. The operator tries to find out which > executables it is and does ls /usr/bin and get a list of 1417 files. How > easy is it to find out which?
Lots of solutions are available to this, including package managers and symlinks from somewhere else into or out of /usr/bin. If every package used it's own directory to ease this, you'd have a pretty impressive PATH, and a pretty unimpressive login time. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad |
