On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 01:01 AM, der.hans wrote:
> Am 14. Oct, 2003 schw=E4tzte Ren so:
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>> Let me explain one of my aggravations with Linux...
Youse guys are all woosies! Consider that MacOS has:
1) A place for programs that Apple manages. Software Update will=20
happily stomp all over this.
2) Another place for stuff you compile yourself.
3) A third place were apt-get puts programs
4) Yet another place where ordinary users are encouraged to install=20=
programs by drag-and-drop.
5) Some overlap between 1 and 4
Now that can make your head ache at first but you soon learn that with=20=
a few symlinks and some judicious manipulation of your PATH you get=20
very fine control. You can change the personality of your machine just=20=
by swapping .zshrc files.
Now my ideal Linux setup would follow the original Unix model and only=20=
put programs absolutely essential to operation of the machine in places=20=
like /bin or /sbin. Everything else would go under /usr/local/compiled=20=
or /usr/local/apt-gotten depending.
Actual Linux is not that far from the ideal.
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