[haiku-development] Re: usr/bin

> Rob Judd wrote:
> > Until we go multi-user, could we have a symlink from /boot/system/
> > bin to
> > /usr/bin please? It would make porting apps that call /usr/bin/env
> > a
> > whole lot easier.
>
> Even with multi user, there will never be a /usr directory in Haiku.
> Porting is not just recompiling, and it deserves a bit more attention
> (like to put the settings into the right place, or use the native
> Media
> Kit instead of porting G-Streamer as well).

+1

Btw, this /usr/bin/env is a stupid trick to locate other binaries, like
#!/usr/bin/env python
instead of
#!/usr/bin/python

Which just moves the problem around, and doesn't fix the issue at all.

François.

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