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Re: Bootup and package managment (and a small status report)
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Michael J. Flickinger |
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Re: Bootup and package managment (and a small status report) |
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Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:06:12 -0400 |
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On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:56:25AM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> But it is needed. One needs to have some place to extract all
> the files that are needed to make GNU boot, run, and be usable,
> and from there create symbolic links to what I call /stow.
>
> Every package needs to be somewhere, but there does not need to be
> a standard place to put them. It would be ok to have a "default,
> usual" place to put them.
>
> Right, and this was all that what I called /packages was.
>
> The name `/stow' is not clear and should not be used. In my design
> I called this `/packages'. Another good name would be
> `/installed'.
>
> I still think that /stow is far clearer than /installed. Users who
> are already familiar with GNU stow, will understand directly what will
> happen when you put a symbolic link in /stow. But lets not worry
> about this right now, we should have something that is usable first
> before we consider these types of details...
>
> Why shouldn't /hurd be managed by unionfs? Translators are
> installed there, it isn't much different from /bin or /libexec.
>
> There is no reason why we should use one directory for both
> translators and the Hurd executables. /hurd should be used for one
> or the other.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by Hurd executables, but if I think you
> mean executables that are just part of the Hurd, then they are
> installed in /bin and /sbin (and some stuff in /libexec). /hurd is
> _only_ used for translators (which are also executables), and this has
> always been the case.
>
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I think /stow/ would work and I'm not in opposition to it, since the word does
describe what it's
going to be used for rather well. But if /stow won't fly, I'd be fine with
something like /pkg/,
as /packages is long and /pkg is short, sweet, and another fun three-lettered
root directory.
--
Michael J. Flickinger
- Re: Bootup and package managment (and a small status report), (continued)
Re: Bootup and package managment (and a small status report), Thomas Schwinge, 2005/09/18
Re: Bootup and package managment (and a small status report), Richard M. Stallman, 2005/09/19