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Re: GNUstep directory layout
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Martin Brecher |
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Re: GNUstep directory layout |
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Fri, 06 Sep 2002 21:05:25 +0200 |
Hi all, -
>> User Domain: Everything installed by a specific user in his/her own home
>> directory, which actually should be /Local/Users/<user-name> (on a Un*x
>> system is could be a symlink to /home).
>
>Symlink, sure. But user home directories should not be
>GNUstep-specific. I'm not going to move my home directories into
>/Local/Users, unless /Local is expected to be 100% always on my machine.
> Even then, I prefer to have my users closer to my root directory, with
>less levels of structure above them. Most GNUstep users don't fully
>integrate their GNUstep installations with their system (ie. quite a lot
>install into /usr/GNUstep, or /opt/GNUstep), so only a symlink *from*
>/home (or /Users) should be considered. But, now we have multiple ways
>of referencing the home directory. One part of the system could
>reference it one way, another might reference it a different way. Are
>you going to go through and change your installed users' home
>directories in the password file to /Local/Users/username from
>/home/username? What if your GNUstep is installed in /opt/GNUstep?
>Would you then change your users from /home/username to
>/opt/GNUstep/Local/Users/username?
Why does GNUstep create its on Users folder anyway when being installed
on a running system? I would rather like to see the
gnustep-make system to figure out which directory is used to have
users' homes in it. Maybe a --home-prefix option would be nice.
When it comes to the layout of a GNUstep specific system, I personally
would vote for /Users: It's the easiest to cd to; makes it more
obvious to create seperate backups of the home directories; and is a
better choice when the folder is mounted seperately. BTW, you
don't have a user /usr/local/home folder in the Linux FSH as well as
most other unix systems, thus /Local/Users is inconvenient.
When it comes to a networked system it's of course a little bit more
difficult. One could possibly symlink all home folders that are in
/Local/Users and /Network/Users so that they would appear in /Users/*.
Another elegant option is the use of an automount
daemon.
Please excuse any given lack of good arguments or clear language :-)
Greetings,
Martin
--
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