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mort96today at 1:18 PM1 replyview on HN

Ah. That makes sense.

It's so annoying how deeply UNIX packaging philosophy assumes that installation directories are something you hard-code at build time.


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akerl_today at 1:37 PM

The present is built mostly on layers of the long-past :)

It makes me think of when Arch merged /usr/bin and sbin with /bin and sbin. Having them split made sense in a ton of scenarios that used to be very common, but increasingly the split was vestigial for most users.

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