Re: Linux ease of use

On Saturday 25 October 2003 04:58, David Blomber wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 12:51, John Andersen wrote:
> > On Friday 24 October 2003 02:21, Daniel C. von Asmuth wrote:
> > > The good news is of course, that you need to be root to install
> > > software, and hopefully root will think for half a second before
> > > installing the latest trojan.
> >
> > A popular misconception.
> > You can install software as a user into your own user space
> > ~/bin.  And thats probably where most of the click-install
> > software should go.  At least it can't do harm to anyone
> > except that particular user.
> >
> > --
>
> Actually nothing should be in /bin it should be in /usr/local/bin /bin
> gets killed during upgrades and should be distro software only.
> secondly click and install is available in KDE (its a user space thing
> not a kernel one) the GUI lets you click on an RPM and it will run you
> through the install.  <most of us "geeks" just avoid using it but it is
> there. :)

You didn't read very carefully.  I said ~/bin which is the users
OWN private bin, and it doed not get reset during upgrades...
Its been this way since the dawn of 'nix systems.


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John Andersen