On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:29:20PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 04:15:56PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >>My mail is currently broken inbound... so I'm replying from the list >>archives.. >> >>=== >>Ah! Sorry about that. >> >>The idea of putting things under categories was something that I >>originally proposed but I wasn't entirely sure that it was ok. >> >>I wonder if we shouldn't just dispense with any hierarchy at all and put >>all of the packages in their own subdirectory, like ftp.gnu.org? >> >>cgf >>=== >> >>A flat structure may not scale efficiently on some systems. I was (for >>obvious reasons I hope) against a category based directory structure, >>but pretty much anything else should be fine :]. >> >>As for putting multiple pacakges in the same dir - yes thats good but >>let me get setup.hint subsumed into the package file first... > >No. No multiple packages in the same directory. Every package gets >their own directory.
Just to clarify: By "no multiple packages", I mean that I don't want to see (to pick an extreme example) ash-blah.tar.bz2 and binutils-blah-tar.bz2 in an ash+binutils directory. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
