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minus-square5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoIt’s one thing when they have legacy hardcode mountains preventing a standardisation, but I really dislike developers who just disagree with the standard and take away the choice as well and justify it with some made up problems with that standard.
minus-squaremerthyr1831@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agowho would win? dozens of conflicting standards on where to store files over years of poorly enforced linux development practice vs some symlink bois for real tho, I discovered gnu-stow the other day and it looks like the ideal solution for this sorta stuff
minus-squareAnn Archy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months ago“Am I out of touch? No, it is the users who are wrong!”
It’s one thing when they have legacy hardcode mountains preventing a standardisation, but I really dislike developers who just disagree with the standard and take away the choice as well and justify it with some made up problems with that standard.
who would win?
dozens of conflicting standards on where to store files over years of poorly enforced linux development practice
vs
some symlink bois
for real tho, I discovered gnu-stow the other day and it looks like the ideal solution for this sorta stuff
vs. user choice via variable.
“Am I out of touch?
No, it is the users who are wrong!”
That’s how my employer does it…