Written by The Wanderer > Well, if all you want is to be able to have more "newbie-friendly" > descriptive names of the directories, it might be possible to achieve > something like that by the simple addition of a collection of symlinks; > just symlink e.g. "/Configuration" to '/etc', '/Programs' to '/bin', > "/System Programs" to '/sbin', '/User Files' to '/home', et cetera. > > That wouldn't get rid of the existing names, but it would be simple to > implement as a single nearly-empty package. > > I imagine one could also set up a custom configuration of some file > browser such that it would hide displaying the "real" names, and then > ship a sort of micro-distro (installer task, maybe?) which installs the > symlinking package and that file browser as part of its standard UI > setup. It wouldn't be perfect, but it might meet the described want.
I was thinking about that, but something could go wrong with that: Written by me. > >> I was wondering what would happen if some program used filesystem paths > >> as its input data for some processing task. He he, yes, changing status quo > >> is not easy Written by Stefan Monnier > > Here's one source of breakage I encountered a few times because of this > > /usr merge (which I generally welcome, BTW): > > > > dpkg -S =foo > > > > this (using the Zsh shell) should give me the name of the Debian package > > which provides the command `foo`. It works well for most commands, but > > it fails for `ifconfig` because `ifconfig` was actually installed in > > /sbin/ifconfig (but the /usr merge makes this same /sbin directory > > available under the name /usr/sbin so Zsh thinks that `ifconfig` comes > > from `/usr/sbin/ifconfig` whereas `dpkg` doesn't have any record of > > installing a `/usr/sbin/ifconfig` file). Written by me > Yes, before every possible bug derived from that change is corrected, > you could use some sort path translation program > that takes paths from the caller program and translates it > to some path the called program can understand. > Just thinking. It could happen again.