Re: pet hate: different versions of same app
Lawrence MacIntyre <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usability.annoyances |
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| Organization | High Performance Information Infrastructure Group |
| Message-ID | <1063715173.19045.277.camel@nautique> |
The problem is that you then have a PATH environment variable containing
an entry for hundreds of directories or you have symbolic links to
thousands of files in /usr/bin. I think that the Linux way is cleaner.
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 10:50, Peter McCool wrote:
> Say I want to run Postgres 6.5 and
> 7: 6.5 for production apps and 7
> for
> testing.
>
> Most distros of my acquaintance
> (RedHat, Debian, Slackware,
> Mandrake)
> make this a total nightmare by
> putting binaries for most
> everything in
> /usr/bin.
>
> The old-skool approach of
> /usr/local/app lets you do this in
> a semi-sane
> way. C'mon, my RH9 box has 1700
> files in /usr/bin. Madness!
>
> Most of the commercial Unices of my
> acquaintance have addressed this in
> some way. I'm curious why Linux
> hasn't...
>
> Peter
>
>
> Oasis Communications corporate logo
>
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Lawrence MacIntyre 865.574.8696 [email protected]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
High Performance Information Infrastructure Technology Group
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