[plug] Easy Installation: Linux Desktop Market

[Craig Ringer]

Ryan wrote:

> Many old unix variants use it too.  Like my beloved SCO server. *glares at it*

Really? Everything I've had the misfortune to have to install on 
OpenServer tends to just pick some random gibberish abbreviation to hide 
under somewhere in /usr - generally more than one, to make life harder. 
For example, Progress (a tool I thankfully escaped having to develop 
with at the last minute) installs into /usr/dlc and /usr/wrk . Huh?

Oh yeah, Progress makes all its files and directories world writeable, 
and all files world executable. Even non-executables. Gotta love that 
old UNIX feel (which, I might add, Progress will enthusiastically carry 
over to Linux in case you feel nostalgic for the horror).

Hell, one of the apps I use just scatters its self throughout /usr, and 
insists that _DATA_FILES_ be world writeable. It's perhaps reasonable 
excuse is that it's from 1983 (I kid you not) and is a multi-user 
Microsoft Xenix port of some MS-DOS "user-friendly" RAD software.

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Craig Ringer