Use the Source Luke

rusi rustompmody at gmail.com
Sat Jan 29 22:59:33 EST 2011


On Jan 30, 2:22 am, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>
> The “problem”, which I don't consider to be a problem per se, is one of
> OS-wide policy, not “installers”. The policy is a matter of tradeoffs
> across the system, and isn't “tucking the code away in a dark corner”.

Earlier mail:

> If you want to blame anything for this (though I think it’s inaccurate
> to frame it as a problem), the correct target of your accusation is the
> fact that a filesystem path is the identifier for these modules that
> will be used by programs to find them.

I think this is a fairly accurate description of (one aspect of) the
problem.
If you dont see it as a problem how do you explain that google can
search the World Wide Web better than we can search our individual
hard disks?



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