Thread: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
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2010-10-16 , 14:38
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#145
Originally Posted by lma View Post
On the other hand I really wouldn't like having, say, an /opt/openssh/usr/bin/ssh that looks for its known_hosts file in ~/.config/ssh/, an
/opt/rsync/usr/bin/rsync that calls that and both present in my $PATH and being search every time I type a command.
Not to mention the extra work packagers would have to handle for each and every package.

Specially considering that the very reason this thread exists is because some packager couldn't use the theoretically _fully automated_ optification tool. Add in more weirdness (changing sysconfdir?) and the number of packages that do not bother at all will increase exponentially.