Ubuntu should move all binaries to /usr/bin/

John McCabe-Dansted gmatht at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 18:40:31 UTC 2011


On Thursday, November 3, 2011, John Moser wrote:
>
> find a binary?  Here, I've solved this problem for you, completely.
> It's easy.  Do this:
>
> luser$ which ls
>
> luser$ which gnome-session
>
> luser$ which synaptic
>
> If it isn't in your path, then it's broken.  Something strange has
>

We could even enhance which to look in obvious places off the path (perhaps
locatedb?)  and print the output on stderr if we really wanted to. If users
really want to do this sort of thing we should add this to the GUI, e.g. an
"all executables/applications" gnome vfs metadirectory.


-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
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