few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 26 16:13:03 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:03 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> > > Why not just change the path rather than litter the world with symlinks?
> > > 
> > > (Also, this is getting offtopic for -desktop rather fast.)
> > 
> > Bringing it to fedora-devel.  The idea is that you'd only be 'littered'
> > with symlinks if you install an FHS compat package.  Otherwise your
> > stuff just lives happily in (/usr)/bin.
> 
> But changing the path solves it without having to touch every (including
> third-party) packages.

But it's not just about the path. It's also about finding it in scripts,
among other places.

-sv





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