You can sling all the insults you want, but the fact is
... the fact is, I have explained this multiple times on this very list, I am tired of seeing the same fallacy come up again and again, and I am tired of repeating myself.
fine with me, as long as the distro cooperates. But if the distro fails to carry out the intent of your software, there are worse things than putting it all in one directory or tree, prepathing their location, and running it that way.
1. There aren't any worse things than software breaking. Do I need to explain again why software breaks when you do that? 2. Why aren't you suggesting the same thing to the ImageMagick authors? or to the util-linux authors? Those are also dumping a lot of stuff into /bin or /usr/bin, including a program abusively named "import" - for which I was willing to concede, in the name of historical priority. It's a real question. Why should I accept subpar treatment that nobody else would consider? -- Laurent
