On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 15:36 -0500, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Roland Mainz wrote:
>
> > My personal complaint is that they stuff everything into /usr/bin/. Unix
> > had some kind of "namespace" support via the elements in ${PATH} so
> > having package groups seperated into /usr/dt/bin/ (CDE), /usr/kde3/bin
> > (KDE3), /usr/xpg4/bin/ (XPG4 personality) and so on is a much cleaner
> > approach than stuffing everything into /usr/bin/. Same applies to
> > ${MANPATH}&.co. There is no real way anymore to set/override/disable
> > things since it's now all in /usr/bin/. In my experience as an
> > adminstrator with many users (who all have different requirements) this
> > design is VERY VERY bad in real life.
>
> 1000s of programs in /usr/bin sucks, but it does offer two benefits over
> the Solaris "shove everything in a different obscure dir" style:
may I ask what is wrong with 1000+ programs in /usr/bin ? As far as
performance is concerned, this directory usually cached out. What else?
--
Erast
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