On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 07:38:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I see one reason: It is maybe easier to know what is belonging to what. > Personally I think that putting every executable in /usr/bin is bad > because its hard know what is user for what. > > 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?
This hypothetical person doesn't know how to use the tools provided by his distribution. IMHO, he should query the package and/or check a manpage to learn that info. (If he'd rather guess, that's his choice...) -- Mike Stone
