libtrash in fedora Core 5

Paul A Houle ph18 at cornell.edu
Mon Jan 23 14:38:49 UTC 2006


>
> But you don't need a _new_ command to do that.
> If you have to teach your users to do something else than "rm somefile",
> then it should be just as easy to teach them to use something like 
> "mv somefile to_be_deleted/" and the same goes for the scripts.
>
> My point is that if we want this kind of feature, it should be
> trasparent to the user (like libtrash) so you don't have to rewrite a
> gazillion scripts and alter user behaviur.
>   
    Yeah,  but people write scripts assuming that 'rm' is going to 
behave in a certain way.  Those scripts won't behave as intended if 'rm' 
suddenly starts doing something else.




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