Jeff Garzik wrote:
Oh, and we will not be moving things out of /usr/bin/ during 1.0
timeframe.
:( bummer. I do like the elegance of having /usr/bin/git executing
stuff out of /usr/libexec/git.
/usr/libexec/git also makes it IMO cleaner when integrating git plugins
from third parties (rpm -Uvh git-newfeature), because you don't have to
worry about the /usr/bin namespace.
It's nice in concept, but I think there are a lot of reasons why this is
a bad idea:
- "man" doesn't handle it. It would be another thing if "man" could be
taught to understand commands like "man cvs checkout" or "man git fetch".
- There is no general way to teach shells etc about it, for tab
completion etc.
- Makes it harder (but not impossible) to run git from a build directory
without installing it first.
In comparison, the issue of clutter in /usr/bin is actually a pretty
small issue, especially with htree. Most vendors have gone back to
putting everything into /usr/bin since all variants that involve
splitting it up seem to be more of a loss than a gain.
-hpa
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