On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Ulrich <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 14.08.2014 um 17:51 schrieb dmccunney <[email protected]>: >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Mateusz Viste <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> But the question now is different (I took the liberty to change the >>> subject of this message accordingly): where would you put applications >>> that need to be reachable from %PATH% ? >> >> There's a discussion elsewhere about when to *stop* trying to automate >> and punt an edge case to the user. This strikes me as such a place. Let >> the user specify a location other than default, but if they do and it needs >> to >> be in %PATH%, it's up to them to add it to %PATH%. > > Yes I know, it's just the PATH statement and DOS users should know their > AUTOEXEC.BAT.
If they don't, they arguably shouldn't be using DOS. > But on the other hand we are talking about a package manager. And as everyone > has learned either from apt-get or from App Store: If you've installed > something, it's ready to run. There might be some user settings left to be > configured, but in general it should just work. > And I think this is a good thing. 'Which means "Accept what the package manager does by default." I mostly concur, but an advanced user might have reasons for wanting things elsewhere. It's nice it the package manager gives them an option to do so and specify where, but if it needs AUTOEXEC.BAT modified for things to work as expected, that's the user's job. > Making things complicated is not a virtue. If someone thinks otherwise, he > should have met my Ex. :-) I've spent the odd hour as a sysadmin and tech support attempting to simplify things for users. "No, no. Their userid is set up to put them directly into the program they need to run. When they are finished, they exit the program, and they are logged off the system. All they have to know is how the use the program." "Good!" ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
