Thread: Where are th GNU etc command line utilities ?
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myk is offline myk
2009-12-19 , 04:26
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Originally Posted by javispedro View Post
If you want a complete GNU system, you can create a chroot.
Is that overkill? I'd have thought it neater to put all the gnu utils in /opt , then just for interactive shells add PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH so the gnu utils over-ride the busybox ones.
As well as adding /opt/lib to ld.so.conf and so forth. I just don't get why they would use all those symlinks instead. Is there a good reason for not using the PATH ?
Last edited by myk; 2009-12-19 at 04:37.