Thread: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-10-12 , 03:43
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I promise you that I'm not following you around today... but at first, I used to think (the bolded part) was a sign of conformity - but after almost a decade and a half of using Linux... you're right.

Installing in a ton of self-prescribed places in Linux, you gain absolutely nothing.
It is, after all, why package managers were created. To let computers do the business of managing stuff that's installed on your system for you. The sort of thing computers are supposed to do.

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.

Originally Posted by TiagoTiago View Post
By installing wherver you want you gain freedom
I suppose, but there are far more important freedoms than randomly smattering your software around the filesystem. And nothing stops you, in any case.
Last edited by wmarone; 2010-10-12 at 03:46.
 

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