On 30 Jan 2012, at 00:17, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Mike Pinkerton wrote:
Additionally, app style programs will become more common in
the future, whether on a portable or a desktop. Those app style
programs are the only way one can create a central marketplace for
small, easily downloaded and
On 01/30/2012 03:38 PM, Mike Pinkerton wrote:
You might not want to encourage the app model, but that boat already
left the dock. For Linux distros to be players on portables and
desktops, they need to recognize that there is an appetite among the
user base for app type programs that are
On 30 Jan 2012, at 10:01, Emanuel Rietveld wrote:
On 01/30/2012 03:38 PM, Mike Pinkerton wrote:
You might not want to encourage the app model, but that boat
already left the dock. For Linux distros to be players on
portables and desktops, they need to recognize that there is an
2012/1/30 Mike Pinkerton pseli...@mindspring.com
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If (1) we mount /usr ro over the network, and (2) we want /usr to be
reserved for managed software (for a variety of reasons), then /usr/local
really doesn't fit anymore.
Why doesn't /usr/local fit anymore? It was especailly designed
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 16:01 +0100, Emanuel Rietveld wrote:
On 01/30/2012 03:38 PM, Mike Pinkerton wrote:
You might not want to encourage the app model, but that boat already
left the dock. For Linux distros to be players on portables and
desktops, they need to recognize that there is
Mike Pinkerton wrote:
If (1) we mount /usr ro over the network, and (2) we want /usr to be
reserved for managed software (for a variety of reasons), then /usr/
local really doesn't fit anymore.
Because /opt is the only other current directory that makes sense for
locally-compiled programs,
I am late to the game but wanted to thank Harald and Kay for their
efforts, and to encourage them to go even further.
History has brought us to a point where there are at least 7 standard
places to put binaries (not counting ~/bin):
/bin
/opt
/sbin
/usr/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/local/bin
Mike Pinkerton wrote:
I accept your premises that the historical reasons for this division
of binaries are no longer compelling, that the present variety of
locations is confusing and works against cross-distro compatibility
and that simplification is a good thing in itself. I encourage you
