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"Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
For ages now just about every program you install in Windows got an option in the install proccess to let you choose to install it in a different folder, why the **** it isn't like that in Linux?
This feels like another example of lazyness like the Y2K bug thing, but instead of the colapse of modern society now we gotta suffer with prograns installing into the extremelly limited internal drive.... |
Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
But it is like that in Linux! When you compile a program you can almost always define the install directory. No problem.
Most linux Distro are built around FHS, and your distro's maintainers chose where to install the packages and when you are installing a pre-packaged binary, you're going by their rules. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesys...archy_Standard Windows doesn't (really) have a well-defined filesystem layout, so stuff goes all over the place, PATH craziness, DLL hell, etc. You can also symlink the files/directories to another place if you want to relocate it. |
Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
OP what solution are you proposing, how do you think it can be implemented?
looking forward to testing out you work. |
Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
What is so bad with installing anywhere I want, and having the option of adding folders to PATH when needed?
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Actually, it really depends on the installer. For example, Google earth lets you choose where to install.
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Installing in a ton of self-prescribed places in Linux, you gain absolutely nothing. |
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By installing wherever you want you gain freedom
Why adding lines to a path file is so much worse than manually moving and symlinking folders and files? |
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About the only time not doing that is when you're using stuff that can't be installed via the package manager. Most common tool I see these days doing that is the Xilinx ISE/EDK suite, which installs itself quite cleanly into /opt. Quote:
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Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
And if we got a package manager, why it can't manage to keep a record of where things are installed?
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