Re: [PLUG] utils

[Mark Bergman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

In the message dated: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:36:15 -0500,
The pithy ruminations from Lynn Bradshaw via plug on 
[Re: [PLUG] utils] were:
=> https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli
=> 
=> Better than sitting on your hands and making certain that rm is the
=> right thing to do. Works "headless" BTW.

It's a philosophical distinction, but I've yet to see the need for a
desktop environment "Trash" directory, and I see even less of a need
for 2000+ lines of code to do the moral equivalent of "rm -i". To be
fair, at $WORK we've got the luxury of filesystem snapshots to solve
the problem of an accidental "rm".

I don't mean to disparage the quality of 'trash-cli', or the author's
intent to help others, but I believe that the project a a fundamental
example of not being aware of the history of the Unix environment.

And, if it's a headless system, then why should a desktop environment
be running on that server at all (versus running locally, with remote
access to the resources of the headless system)?

    “Those who do not understand Unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly.”
    - Henry Spencer, 1987

Mark "anyone want to talk about systemd now?" Bergman


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