Nethack 3.4.3 [PSARC/2008/172 FastTrack timeout 03/11/2008]

[James Carlson]

Danek Duvall writes:
> So is there any other problem you see being solved by not putting
> everything in /usr/bin?  Other than there simply being more things in there
> than there were in 1973?

The problem I see is architectural: we went out of our way to define a
system architecture that included /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/games and
other locations that are not strictly needed for system operation but
that define delivery locations for certain classes of objects.

Nobody's asking to have new classes added, so the discussion of
/usr/terminal-emulators or whatever is just out of scope.  It doesn't
matter.

If we're going to dump everything in /usr/bin, then I'm on board.  The
one request I have is that we be consistent architecturally: make
/sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/games and the like formally obsolete.  Don't
just scatter things into /usr/bin or whereever because someone says
ETOOHARD.  Let's design things _intentionally_ and not by fad.

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