I do think Lennart's arguments in <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/155511/focus%3D155792> make sense.
On 2 November 2011 07:02, nick rundy <nru...@hotmail.com> wrote: > There are several situations where I need to find an executable. One that > comes immediately to mind is when I need to specify what program to use to > open an online stream and the program I want is not appearing in an offered > list. So I need to go find the .exe. This is a (set of) bugs that ought to be fixed in their own right: ideally the correct program should just appear in the list, but when it doesn't the user should not need to poke around on the filesystem to find it. > The $which command often can't find the exe because the > exe has been placed somewhere else (hence why putting all this stuff in one > place is a good idea). If it's placed somewhere not on the default path, then it's either an executable that is not normally intended to be run directly (some things in /usr/lib), or it came out of a third party installer that put it in /opt/ or /usr/local/randomprogram or /home. Ubuntu moving all the packaged programs doesn't seem very likely to fix that, but <http://developer.ubuntu.com> might help. m -- 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
