[haiku-development] Re: RFC: /usr symlink?
- From: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 22:09:57 -0400
On 10/10/13, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Alexander von Gluck IV
> <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> mmadia pointed out this was discussed previously:
>> //www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/usrbin
>
> OK, this has inspired a rant:
>
> I'm sorry guys, all the arguments in that thread are unconvincing, and
> amount to nothing more than "Haiku does this a certain way, and that
> is it, no ifs, ands or buts and no compromising."
>
> Having to "port" shell scripts which use /usr/bin/env is a big waste
> of time. Don't you purists think we have enough work already???
There has been numerous talks of adding magic in runtime_loader to
handle the /usr/bin/env to /bin/env.
To note, the directories you listed in Haiku's root don't actually
exist on-disk as symbolic links.
--mmadia
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