On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:01 PM, nick rundy <nru...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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\). Finding > an executable file in Ubuntu is frustrating & lacks organization that makes > sense to users. Fedora is considering a fix for this issue. I think Ubuntu > should do the same.
ABSOLUTELY NOT. System binaries for administrative and basic shell tools go into /bin and /sbin. Libraries go into /lib. This is well-known, it is documented, it is standard. A system that cannot boot to the point of mounting or giving a basic recovery console without /usr is not functional. We are not Windows. We do not go breaking standards that are well-defined and reasoned for a variety of flexible use cases because we "think" it would be "better" in some invisible way. You want to find a binary? Here, I've solved this problem for you, completely. It's easy. Do this: luser$ which ls luser$ which gnome-session luser$ which synaptic If it isn't in your path, then it's broken. Something strange has happened. Yes, some applications (Mozilla...) do use a small shell script that loads a binary from /usr/libexec/mozilla/bin/ and I find this annoying and ill-designed. That's part of what XULrunner was supposed to fix: a single Mozilla libs install to run all XUL apps. I loudly proclaim that "reusable code" should not have one copy installed as a separate library for each time it is reused, and that this behavior is inconsistent and broken--that changing it will cause the system to become nonfunctional means the brokenness isn't in where we've installed it, but how the program was designed. I wonder how many shell scripts will break when /bin/sh and /bin/bash aren't there anymore. > > 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 > > -- > 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 > > -- 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
