nick rundy [2011-11-01 15:01 -0400]: > I came to ubuntu from Windows. And one thing Windows does well is make it > easy to find an executable file (i.e., it's in C:\Program Files\)
In fact, Windows makes that really hard, as there is no standard location for binaries. Each application ships its executables in its own directory. > Finding an executable file in Ubuntu is frustrating & lacks > organization that makes sense to users. I doubt that many users actually care, and those wo do can use "which". Also. all binaries a user is actually concerned with are in /usr/bin (i. e. the ones you'd call to open documents with). > Here's a link to an article that talks about Fedora's idea: > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-considers-moving-all-binaries-to-usr-bin-1369642.html?view=print > That would mean that we need to drop the possibility to have /usr on a separate partition/network file system, or make the initramfs clever/complicated enough to actually wait for /usr to come up. Also, the separation of /sbin and /usr/sbin is not just totally random; for non-admin users it makes them not appear in tab completion etc, which cleans up the command namespace a bit. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
