Re: Installing back (Local <-> System)

[Sašo Kiselkov]

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Chris Vetter wrote:
> On 2006-11-24 18:26:52 +0100 Nicola Pero
> <nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com> wrote:
>> It wasn't changed. ;-)
> [...]
> 
> Out of curiosity , why IS there a difference between GNUstep/Local and
> GNUstep/System. Yes, I know, legacy support and all that. But,
> seriously, does it still make (much) sense?
> 
> And no, this is neither trolling, nor wanting to start (another) flamewar.
> 

The reason is quite simmilar to why /usr and /usr/local are two quite
simmilar directory structures - so that, for example, /System can be
mounted from a remote read-only location (e.g. a shared network
repository of apps and libs) and /Local be used as the "local machine's"
repository. Also, it's often used to differentiate between who made the
software - /System is for system installed software (by the "distro"),
whereas /Local is used by the local system administrator for locally
installed apps.

/Network should be used in a P2P manner of accessing other machine's
resources (pretty much simmilar to how the "Network Neighborhood"
features of Windows works) even though there's no standard on how it
should be layed out or implemented.

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Saso
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