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From: Rolf Campbell <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com>
Subject: OT: disk structure (was Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin
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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:12:41 -0500
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Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
>>From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
>>Of Rolf Campbell
> 
> 
>>>Software packages belong in  C:\Program\*  and nowhere else
>>
>>(Note that this
>>
>>>is equal to "C:\Program Files\*" on ENGLISH Win98.
>>
>>Ahhh... yeah.  So, what is the rest of the disk for?  Why not just put
>>everything in a directory called "C:\Everything"?
> 
> 
>  Ahh... Microsoft infestation detected. ;-)
> 
>  I should have written  "C:\Program\<package-name>\"  above...
> Happy now?
> 
> 
>  I _hate_ having C:\foo\ c:\bar\ c:\this\ c:\that\ directories. They DO
> belong in C:\Program\ (or whatever) _AND NOT IN THE ROOT_ >:-I
> 
>  Any files belonging to a software package should be kept in a storage that
> identifies them as beeing part of that package. IMO a well structured
> operating system allows this (e.g. AmigaOS, Unix/Linux)
> 
>  Therefore cygwin is in C:\Program\cygwin\ here. As it has kept all its
> files within that directory I consider it to be "well behaving". (i.e. I
> talk good about it among friends ;-)
> 
>  Example: Install Corel Draw (Version 8 is the last one I tried), tell it to
> install in C:\Program\CorelDraw\ - what does it do? It STILL creates a
> C:\corel\ directory; to hold some "essential" files.
> 
> /Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden
> 
> --END OF MESSAGE--

While I agree that not all programs should have a root dir, what's in 
yours?  "Program", "Documents and Settings", "WINNT"?  All that means is 
that instead of having 35 root dirs, you have 3 root dirs and 33 dirs in 
"Program".  That is no better (unless you are running FAT16).

And Linux doesn't give you anything better, they just call "Program 
Files" "/bin".

I like to have (and used to have) a more functionally structured disk: 
in "C:\", I had: "Programming", "Courses", "Internet", "AudioVideo", etc...



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