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>>>>> "Ajanta" == Ajanta writes:
Ajanta> Phillip Lord wrote:
>> Well this is a different issue. Clutter for me is a problem in
>> user space... In space managed my the machine (like for instance
>> a make file installed emacs), I couldn't care less about
>> duplication, or clutter. Computers don't get confused by clutter.
Ajanta> However, since computers are there for users, there is bound
Ajanta> to be some overlap. One might want to know just what
Ajanta> commands are there in one's various bin's, what they do, who
Ajanta> put them there and why. In tricky situations the only way to
Ajanta> understand a program better may be to actuallly browse its
Ajanta> directories and files, so clutter there would hurt.
Of course this is true. But there are some parts of my computer that I
look at, and some that I don't. The internals of an installed emacs, I
don't. Its much more important that the Makefile, or the autoconf
script, or what ever, is uncluttered than the final file system is. If
you have to put in a lot of stuff, removing the excess files, then you
are trading one for the other.
You win somethings, you loose others.
Phil