Re: netpbm vs. pbmplus
On Tue, 23 Jan 1996 12:20:43 -0500 (EST), Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com> said:
> I discussed this with a colleague who has 35 years in the computer
> industry. He suggested I use the argument that it's easy for people
> to change their PATH.
Suppose you have twenty users. With this scheme, every time a new
(big) software package is installed, twenty people have to modify
their .profile/.cshrc before they can use it. If it's installed in
/usr/bin, they need do nothing.
> It's VERY, VERY hard to operate on an enormous directory.
Huh? I'm at a loss to come up with any operation that I would want to
do that would become "VERY, VERY difficult" if /usr/bin was not
splintered into lots of pieces.
--Mike
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