scripsit John Smith: > > One good reason why that behaviour is evil is that I may want to install > > custom versions of utils without messing with /bin or /usr/bin. That's > > what /usr/local is for, after all. > > One of the things I thoroughly dislike about unices is that anybody > and his mother who thinks he is able to write a program, think they > have the god given right to bother a whole system with his fscked up > s**t, ie. 'adjust' the whole environment for some particular program.
Um, yes. That's why I wouldn't suggest that anyone who for whatever reason decided to recompile tar (for example) put it in /bin. Put the ``fscked up s**t'' as you called it in /usr/local/bin. If a user prefers the OS's version to the admin's, he is free to put /bin:/usr/bin at the front of his PATH. > Some advice: 1) Keep your own stuff together 2) write a general > wrapper for any straight called executable of your own making 3) don't > bother other programs, especially the os. Some advice: Don't worry yourself too much about what ``fscked up s**t'' I might want to put in my /usr/local/bin. -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
