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Charles Wilson wrote: > > Funny you should use 'X' as your variable. Think /usr/X11R6/bin/... > So, I would like to see /usr/netpbm/bin. > I agree, we shouldn't worry too much about keeping /bin "clean" -- > although distributions are moving towards putting stuff into /opt/pkg/* > and making symlinks these days. > Symlinks are slow for Win32, avoid them. > However, IMO netpbm, like XF86, is a special case -- how many other > packages have 223 executable files and scripts? ("KDE" doesn't count; > the KDE environment consists of lots of different packages; netpbm is > one integral unit (or at most 4). And besides, doesn't KDE install into > its own tree?) > As for the # of executables in the /bin directory, isn't there a limit to the number of files and/or directory entries in any one directory on win32? Earnie.
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