Re: Utilities vs Applications

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From: David Champion
Subject: Re: Utilities vs Applications
Date: 00:41 on 29 Apr 2005
* On 2005.04.28, in <20050428233116.GA15440@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx>,
*	"Michael G Schwern" <schwern@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> 
> How is a user supposed to know the difference?  Why even have this artificial
> split?

The split makes sense to me.  It's Apple's choices for each category
that make no sense.


> Unix does this, too, with the whole bin vs sbin thing.  traceroute and
> ifconfig being the two I'm always losing.

That's a hate, indeed, because it used to mean something, once upon a
time.  Sbin was for static tools, the sort of thing you don't want to
crap out because your libc is hosed, or not yet mounted.  These days
no vendors put any stock in separation or recoverability.  Most would
prefer to stow everything onto one filesystem and dynamlically link
everything.  On Solaris it's getting near impossible to static-link
anything, because basic OS services are *able* to use DSOs for lookups
and such, and libdl only comes shared.  HATE.

Actually I've all but given up hating in this arena.  Sanity lost that
battle years ago.

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