UNIX sucks

There's a setting for every petty little shit thing you can imagine, except for a custom path where you want apps to put their rc files and whatnot. I bet there was someone at some point in the design of UNIX who said "LOL lets clutter ~ with a million dot files and directories! Ha ha ha!!"

Face it: UNIX is gay.

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a) yaeh, it's inconsistent, but it's not *that* bad, because most of the progams accept both -stuff and --stuff. ln works like ln works like that because that way you can just do a ln (-s) /stuff/you/would/like/to/link and it get's linked to the current directory. that allows greater flexibility and less work (most of the time). ls -la doesn't work on solaris, because solaris isn't linux and linux isn't unix. you can, however, install the gnu-tools anytime.
b) ./configure --prefix=/usr
fixed. no big deal.
e) it's your problem that you always do a ls -la, not unix'.