John Plocher writes: > Joseph Kowalski wrote: > > To be more constructive, maybe we should look at the CLIP > > case. On the surface, its not relevant, but perhaps we should > > remember the strong advice (er, requirement) in that case of > > > > "When in Rome, do as the Romans". > > Since we are moving all the inhabitants of the 'burbs into > downtown Rome (/usr/bin), does that rule make sense any more?
Sure. Rome was never defined in terms of a directory. The "when in Rome" rule refers to groups of commands that share either a common purpose, a common set of abstractions, or a common usage model. The exact path to find the commands has little or nothing to do with it, and the paths for two different groups needn't be distinct. Thus, I'd expect "zpool" and "zfs" to be similar to each other, because they're part of an identifiable grouping. I wouldn't expect either of them to share much in common with "ifconfig" or "lumake" just because they're in the same directory. So, yes, the rule still holds, and for exactly the same reasons. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
