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1. behnam+Cm[view] [source] 2026-01-04 16:12:40
>>csmant+(OP)
This is what happens when a system is designed by multiple people and companies over a long period of time. An amalgam of ideas which are there just because. There's no reason Linux should be like this. e.g., see https://gobolinux.org/ which has more sane dirs.
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2. eviks+Eq[view] [source] 2026-01-04 16:38:02
>>behnam+Cm
Oh, that's an awesome idea to get rid of those awful splits and focus on apps! Scoop package manager on Windows works the same way. Though it has a few issues when some security apps ignore "current" symlinks (and don't support regex for versioned paths), and then versioned dirs bite you when versions changes. Wonder whether this distro has similar issues and whether it'd be better to have the current version a regular dir and then the versioned dir a symlink
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