Re: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symboliclinks to directories)

[NNK_ml <savantedge at gmail dot com>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> 
>>From: Christopher Faylor
>>Sent: 18 April 2005 18:44
> 
> 
>>On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:40:39PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>>On Apr 18 18:27, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>
>>>>----Original Message----
>>>>
>>>>>From: NNK_ml
>>>>>Sent: 18 April 2005 18:18
>>>>
>>>>>>>Well, /bin is the bin, that's a bit like /dev/null, but /usr/bin is
>>>>>>>the user bin, that's where we throw all the user's files away when
>>>>>>>we want to delete them.  Then there's the user's local bin, which is
>>>>>>>a bit like the recycle bin in windows.
>>>>>
>>>>>So /usr/bin is where you dump entire user directories, but their local
>>>>>bin is where files go when the user deletes their own stuff?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I refer you to the last sentence of my earlier post!
>>>
>>>Since you were all making it up anyway, let's get serious (OT alarm!):
>>>
>>>Wouldn't it be much better(*) and cleaner(*) if every single Cygwin
>>>package would use its own subdirectory under C:\Program Files ?
>>
>>Isn't this exactly what Dave was saying?
>>
>>Again, I didn't really read the above but that is my interpretation of
>>what you've both written since I don't have time to do anything other
>>than respond. 
>>
>>cgf
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> 
>   Excellent work, young grasshopper.  Simply empty your mind of all
> confusion and thought before posting; soon you too will have achieved the
> satori of getting a 'first post' on /.
> 
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK

Not aiming that high yet by any means.  :P

Am doing a little looking-into in to the purpose of the special folders
in Linux though...

Thanks to one and all for their help/advice/patience/disparaging-remarks.

-Neil, stands corrected