Re: Linux ease of use

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 14:52, John Andersen wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
yep I must eat mud pie I missed the ~ but on the other hand I know of
no-one who installs apps in ~/bin--many just run their simple items from
~ and when it becomes a needed app put it in /usr/local/bin.

But I digress sorry I missed the ~

Dave