<de-lurk> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Baho Utot <baho-u...@columbus.rr.com>wrote:
> Lookup the bumblebee fiasco on google, > The bumble devs had a line rm -rf /usr /lib<what ever> in a install script > so you installed the app and your /usr was gone. > Are you seriously saying this is a reason to split things between /bin and /usr/bin? The typo could have just as easily been 'rm -rf / usr/lib/<whatever>'. How would splitting stuff between /bin and /usr/bin help you then? (In fact, since most implementations of rm seem to traverse directories in alphabetical order, the files under /bin would be the first ones to get deleted before you could hit ctrl+C.) There are lots of good arguments both for and against the split, but this really isn't one of them. (My actual opinion? If I were starting from scratch, putting everything under /usr seems more logical than sprinkling binaries all over the directory tree. At the same time, the existing system works and I don't see any compelling reason to change it.) William Tracy afishion...@gmail.com Cell phone: (805) 704-0917 Internet phone: (707) 206-6441
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