c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · RustyNova@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026 23:03

Unix purists bullies another project

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A mastodon post from @rustynova.mastodon.social, saying: Due to multiple complaints about "Not following the Unix philosophy", the `alistral sex` command will be removed in the next version. You will be able to keep it working by keeping the v0.6.9's executable and setting a custom cache database location to prevent conflict with the database version. Sorry for the inconvenience. Stay tuned for a standalone version under the `alistsex` name.

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Hopefully it’s funny enough to offset that I’m reposting my own post.

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@thevoidzero@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026

What if I write a program that checks argv[0] to decide which part of the code to run, and makes a bunch of symlinks

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- @CrumblyLiquid@lemmy.ml · 5 Sep 2026 · edited
  
  That’s actually what BusyBox does I think. You have one executable for everything and it changes the behavior according to argv[0].
  
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- @ThreeKnew@lemdro.id · 5 Sep 2026
  
  Then that would kind of defeat the purpose
  
  But it’s not like you /have/ to adhere to the Unix philosophy or anything
  
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