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Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep
From: |
Pascal J . Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Oct 2003 01:26:20 +0200 |
> On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 08:25 AM, Helge Hess wrote:
>
> > On 09.10.2003, at 08:42, Chad Hardin wrote:
> >> I really don't think that you can shove the GNUstep file layout into
> >> a FHS. It has to be its own thing.
> >
> > Could you elaborate?
> >
> > Except for applications and maybe frameworks GNUstep stuff is regular
> > libraries, tools and resources, no different to other ones.
I would like to point to X11 for example. It's installed in its own
hierarchy in /usr/lib/X11 (plus some configuration files in /etc/X11).
Actually, sorting files by category /etc, /bin, /usr/lib, etc was a
good idea when there was a small number of files, on slow computers
with slow disks. Ok, disks are still slow compared to CPU, but you
don't gain anything in putting all you tools in the same /bin or all
you libraries in the same /usr/lib, because we have processors fast
enough and memories big enough to keep in cache all the pointers.
Note also that frameworks on MacOSX, and applications in NeXTSTEP and
OpenStep work this way, keeping related stuff inside one directory
rather than dispatching the elements all over the file system.
How ridiculous would it be to store all the application executables in
/bin, all the application icons in /usr/shared/icons/, all the
application help files in /usr/lib/help, and all the libraries in
/usr/lib...
Chad Hardin writes:
> You already said it, Applications are the biggest reason that I can
> think of. If GNUstep has frameworks, then that would be another issue
> as well.
>
> The filesystem layout is designed to be very logical and easy for the
> average user to understand. That is a really great feature of GNUstep
> (from the users perspective), which would be a shame to remove.
--
__Pascal_Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com/
Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in reality.
- Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep, (continued)
- Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep, Jeff Teunissen, 2003/10/08
- Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep, Matthias Klose, 2003/10/09
- Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep, PUYDT Julien, 2003/10/09
- Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep, Chad Hardin, 2003/10/09
- Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep, Helge Hess, 2003/10/09
- Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep, Chad Hardin, 2003/10/09
- Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep, Hippie Jack, 2003/10/10
- Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep, Jeff Teunissen, 2003/10/10
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- Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep, Chris B. Vetter, 2003/10/10
Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep, Chad Hardin, 2003/10/08
Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep, NeXT, 2003/10/09
Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep, Dennis Leeuw, 2003/10/09
Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep, Eric Heintzmann, 2003/10/10