On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:03 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jesse Keating (jkeating(a)redhat.com) said:
> > Why not just change the path rather than litter the world with symlinks?
> >
> > (Also, this is getting offtopic for -desktop rather fast.)
>
> Bringing it to fedora-devel. The idea is that you'd only be 'littered'
> with symlinks if you install an FHS compat package. Otherwise your
> stuff just lives happily in (/usr)/bin.
But changing the path solves it without having to touch every (including
third-party) packages.
But it's not just about the path. It's also about finding it in scripts,
among other places.
-sv