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this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
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I don't get why we didn't just do it macOS style; bundle everything into one directory with a standardised structure and wire up file managers etc. to run the correct executable inside it.
Because the FHS is a more sensible organization of files. Not every user needs to have their own executable for each program, that's a mess.
macOS has both, a system wide /Applications and per-user ~/Applications. Not to mention that it doesn’t really matter on a single user system anyway.
Proper, integrated packaging is obviously preferred (though as a NixOS user I disagree that that implies an FHS) but this is about "stand-alone" packages. You're missing the point.
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