On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > 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.
+1 to this. Unixen in general are much more consistent. User level binaries shipped with the base system go in /bin, system level (eg root type stuff) /sbin. Additional packages not part of the base system belong in the /usr/bin and /usr/sbin locations, any package not following that needs fixing, not breaking *EVERYTHING* in the world so that "all bins are in the same dir" -- since they already are supposed to be. Just *TRY* to find all the executable binaries for say MS Office. Now how about DLLs? Yeah, good luck with that. > >> 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. Another +1. -- "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds." -- Samuel Butler -- 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
