Gustavo Noronha Silva dijo [Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:26:20PM -0300]: > > Note that there is at least one project which is looking at doing exactly > > that while retaining backwards compatability (GoboLinux). It may be worth, > > on the long term, looking at how it may be possible to migrate from > > obscure paths like "/opt", "/bin", "/sbin", "/usr/bin", etc, to more > > sensible names, in that way. > > They had a presentation on the IV Free Software International Forum in > Porto Alegre (Brazil) this year and I can assure you I didn't hear a > lot of good things about this (I didn't actually attend to the thing, > but other DD's did). > (...) > I don't really care about /. I think path abstraction should be achieved > by graphical file management utilities like Nautilus, not by messing > with something that's actually working, to then cause more problems.
I completely agree with you... I was arguing with a friend of mine, a Ximian developer. He insisted me that they were bringing Unix to the desktop of people, just like what Apple did. I insst that is *not* what they are doing. Even though under every Ximian and MacOS X system there is a Unix box, the user only uses a strange abstraction that -maybe without the user's knowledge- uses Unix itself. Debian is a Unix system (ok, Unix-like for purism). It should stay a Unix system. We already have a very important user base, we are obliged not to give them such a headache. Besides, I really doubt that even one tenth of the Debian developers would be happy to switch ;-) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF
