"Dale J. Chatham" wrote:
> One of the better ways of handling this kind of thing is to have central
> "system" directories with users able to put their own data in their home
> directories. A search path isn't a bad thing, as is the ability to set
> directories in environment variables.
>
> Having only one directory in which to store everything is kinda old-style.
Oh yes, I agree, there's more than one way of organizing a large bunch
of supplementary data like our Base Package. Personal home directories
is just one among many other options, having various 'thematic'
repositories spread over multiple servers could be another, there are
many variants inside the scope which is spawn by these two cases as
well as probably a lot more options outside this scope.
Unfortunately we're still stuck with having just this single CVS repo
as the sole 'implementation' of an 'official' repository and I'm
certainly among those who've been trying to improve the situation over
the past years.
Cheers,
Martin.
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