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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by gavinray on Thursday November 11, 2021 @10:56AM (#29189316)
How do you deal with lack of being able to just point to "/usr/lib/include" or other things when saying "here's my directory of shared libs"?

This is definitely interesting though, and an improvement I would say

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by JonathonW on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:25AM (#29189740)
GoboLinux symlinks everything into an FHS-ish structure under /System/Index/ so you still have a single place where binaries/libraries/includes/etc. live. (There are also symlinks from /usr/lib, /usr/bin, and others into /System/Index/ for compatibility with programs where those might be hardcoded.)
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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by short12 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:25PM (#29190533)
That actually seems like some low hanging fruit to go on a commit spree correcting code that hard codes paths
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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by oblio on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:29PM (#29192062)
GoboLinux is old enough to vote in most countries.

So either those low hanging fruits are higher than they seem, or we're all just a bunch of dwarves.

My bet is on the second option.

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by matheusmoreira on Thursday November 11, 2021 @05:38PM (#29194176)
It is low hanging fruit as far as the software is concerned. Simply parameterize all paths.

Will upstream accept such patches though? Sounds unlikely to me.

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