Then the much better cause to fight for is to make this packaging and installing not resemble splattering a bucket of paint on the wall (installing stuff in /us

Then the much better cause to fight for is to make this packaging and installing not resemble splattering a bucket of paint on the wall (installing stuff in /usr, /bin, /etc and so forth). The Linux distros did a good job packaging stuff but in the end it's all a very wasted effort that should have gone to unifying the way stuff is installed so we could all be more productive after. I can dream, I know. Some people will likely pull out a gun if you say that /usr/bin should exist only as a collection of symlinks.