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Re: mozilla problems



Michael Meskes writes:
> Yes, because it will not run without an X server to connect to.

I wrote:
>  So perl programs must go in /usr/perl/bin, and bash scripts in
> /usr/bash/bin?

Martin writes:
> No. The choice you have is /usr/bin or /usr/X11R6/bin.

My question was rhetorical.

> If I look for this programm to display fonts which name I forgot, I am
> lost. I can maybe try ls g* x* to limit this somehow, but if I can resort
> to /usr/X11R6/bin for programms which need a X server, then this is much
> easier.

Use the documentation system.

> Splitting by X / non-X is a good criteria and IMHO very useful.

How is it different from a perl/non-perl split?

> You also don't want only one lib dir and abandon sbin, don't you?

There are good reasons for those.  Much better ones than "I like to root
around among the binaries when I can't find something".
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