On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:09:44 -0000, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote:
Some of you might be more experienced in the old Unix ways and
might know how in the good old days all the environment variables
were standardized. What I am up to: There are these new stylish
ways of running applications based on their file extensions or
mime types, which is annoying and leads to many symlinks. Instead
some environment variables do exist. But maybe history has evolved
some other substandards than I know?
Bind mount or symlink. Do not construct pathnames from environment
variables.
mount -o bind /usr/bin/vim /bin/editor
In fact, the /etc/alternatives mess of Debian would be acceptable, if it
were not for the symlinks from /usr/bin to /etc/alternatives. They're
forced to do that, however, because of the way $PATH works.
In this regard, Plan 9 sucks less than Unix.
--
-,Bjartur
