Fedora (Linux) is Destroying it self

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet at gmail.com
Tue May 12 10:37:01 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 09:56 +0100, Ilyes Gouta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think it's a good idea to not throw everything in one location. May
> be we should really introduce this as a feature for the next Fedora
> releases. This would also help get rid of the /usr/bin directory,
> introduce more flexibility in packages management and security.
> 
> -Ilyes

Every single path you add to $PATH makes it take longer to find an
executable on the system. I currently have over 750 packages on my
system with files in /usr/bin; are you proposing to add over 750 paths
to $PATH?

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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