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Re: Package format/management ramblingss
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: Package format/management ramblingss |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:11:22 +0200 |
A package is _only_ allowed to put files in /packages/PACKAGE.
It is a package after all.
My idea is that you can unpack a package tarball anywhere you like.
I was unclear. What I meant was that a package is only allowed to put
files inside of the directory /packages/PACKAGE; where /packages can
be anything. I.e. if you extract a package you will end up with one
directory, that will contain _all_ files that belong to the package.
No package will put files in /share/emacs, that directory is a
virtual one. /share/emacs would be the union of
/packages/*/share/emacs.
I don't think this makes sense. We don't want to produce
/share/emacs in this way.
Agreed, but for the user the directory /share/emacs would contain what
is in /package/*/emacs. So infact, /share is a union of
/package/*/share/emacs. As to how it should be produced, thats a
different story.
But I think the right solution is not to use /share/emacs at all.
All the files that might have gone in /share/emacs should be in
/packages/emacs-20/etc, /packages/emacs-20/lisp, and so on.
I don't know if this is a typo, sure looks like it... But are you
suggesting the removal of $(datadir) (i.e. share/)? And moving all its
content up one level in the directory tree?
When Emacs starts, it will be able to open names like
/dev/mydata/etc, /dev/mydata/lisp, to get at those directories.
I like this alot.
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, (continued)
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/09
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Soeren D. Schulze, 2004/08/10
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/08/10
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/10
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/05
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Soeren D. Schulze, 2004/08/09
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/08/09
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/09
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss,
Alfred M. Szmidt <=
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/10
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/08/11
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/12
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/08/15
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/16
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/08/18
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/20
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Soeren D. Schulze, 2004/08/10
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/08/10
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/08/11