On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:16:48 +0200 Bzzzz <lazyvi...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:11:30 -0400 > Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > > exec /home/slitt/dwm-6.0/dwm > > This is not a regular pkg.
LOL, half my computer isn't a regular package. On my computer, /d/bats, which is on my executable path, is a bunch of programs, primarily bash and python, often calling C, Perl, Python, Ruby and Lua programs I've written, to do the same tasks, distro after distro, version after version. Interestingly, /d/bats was d:/bats back when I used DOS/Windows in the 20th century. Indeed, "bats" originally stood for "batch files". I'm pretty sure I had a d:/bats in 1989, but definitely by 1995. Throughout all this time, my computers hinged on a few of my beliefs: * Mine is a *personal* computer, and I'm the only user * Mixing config, cache and actual data is a bad idea, so my use of /home/slitt is minimized. This can only be done on a *personal* computer. My /d directory tree (d: drive in the Windows days) houses my data, and I try hard not to put important data in /home/slitt. * I feel better trusting my business to code I've written, or tweaks I've made to make package programs do more of what I want them to do, and less strange stuff the developers though "sounded good at the time". * Dependencies are the path to perdition, and if I can avoid them by coding my own stuff in Python, that's a good thing. For instance, see this page: http://troubleshooters.com/linux/index.htm When modifying that page, I actually modify a local copy of http://troubleshooters.com/linux/linuxlibrary.otl, which I quickly construct and change with VimOutliner. Then, I turn it into the web page with my makeLinuxLibrary.sh command, and sftp the new web page up to the server. /d/bats contains home-brew commands to check XML for being well formed, to add id properties to every <h1> in a web page, to run my home-brew Umenu in several different ways, to print envelopes from a simple text file, to create personalized courseware packs to my paying customers, and a whole bunch of other tasks. As a result, when I change distros or versions, 90% of my everyday activities get perfectly restored with my data backups. As far as dwm, that's an example of software that shouldn't be a package at all, in any distro. The only way to customize dwm is to modify config.h and recompile, so why use a binary package? SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140629164724.3b906...@mydesq2.domain.cxm
