Anton Aylward
On 10/13/2015 01:22 PM, Xen wrote:
I don't see your point.
There is nothing magical about this, but to many of us it makes more sense than having binaries and libraries in ad-hoc (aka chaotic, random) places like some Windows systems. I disagree with Hisham Muhammad.
I have no clue who Hisham Muhammad is, except that I can find him on the web. But if you disagree with him, then it stands to reason that I would like this thought :P.
Yes, there are going to be people who ignore or are ignorant of the FHS. Yes Microsoft tries to organize things sensibly despite what many vendors and developers end up doing. But the coherency with UNIX/Linux was good and when it wasn't there was always pressure for things like The Great Renaming and The etc Coherency project.
Oof, old school mechanics I've never heard of. You'd start to think Unix/Linux would have a history :P.
That you can't see how to make something like Thunderbird a portable (aka put it on a USB stick) app says more about you and your lack of understanding of shell programming than any limitation of Linux.
No it tells a tale of me wanting you to do it for me.
If I want to run Thunderbird off a USB stick 9and have, once just to show I could) I'd add to my path the location on the USB stick and edit the copy of thunderbird.sh there appropriately. The script is pretty smart, looking at where its being executed, so location the appropriate libraries is taken care of anyway.
Thanks, that is good info, now I won't need to do it myself :P.
But the downside to that is that you have to specify the maximum size of your home directory in advance.
That doesn't make sense the way you've written it.
If you mean that the size of the 'container' you are encrypting has to be defined beforehand and them put your file system in there, so what?
If I use a disk partition or LVM LE I have to define the size as well. if you are talking about having a file that you do the crypt/LUKS thing on and have to determine the size of the file, how is this different?
The difference is that you don't understand me.
Yes, its a 'downside' that when I partition a disk the size of the container is 'fixed'.
Hardly so, but then I use thin LVM nowadays :P. LOL!.
Bo-Ho! Go cry somewhere else.
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