[haiku-development] Re: usr/bin

  • From: Marcus Overhagen <marcusoverhagen@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:03:21 +0200 (CEST)

Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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).

I FULLY AGREE!

People have to understand that recompiling and porting are completely different 
tasks.

Porting means to adapt a software to the system.

We should really not add any symlinks to fake Linux / Unix directories.

regards
Marcus

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