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Rage Against the File System Standard

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

pwagland submitted a rant by Mosfet on file system standards. I think he's sort of over simplified the whole issue, and definitely wrongly assigned blame, but it definitely warrants discussion. Why does my /usr/bin need 1500 files in it? Is it the fault of lazy distribution package management? Or is it irrelevant?

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  1. The Alternative? by Mike+Connell · · Score: 4, Redundant

    I'd much rather have 2000 binaries in /usr/bin than 2000 path entries in my $PATH

    Mike

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