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.
Hardly anyone is familiar with GNU stow. So we should choose the name
that is clearest to the majority, the people are not familiar with GNU
stow. That is why I propose /installed. Can you suggest another name
that is clearer to the typical user?
/hurd is
_only_ used for translators (which are also executables), and this has
always been the case.
I see now--I was confused by some previous messages.
The file that is needed in /hurd is unionfs itself.
Which is a translator, of course.
So this suggestion seems applicable:
For instance, a program that runs during timesharing could find
the necessary executable file via unionfs and make a link to it from
the necessary name so that booting can find it.
This is to say, booting would find unionfs thru a symlink with a standard
name from a dir that is never managed by unionfs, such as /boot/unionfs.
But unionfs, when running, would update that symlink to point to the
version of unionfs that you would find in /hurd/unionfs.
This way, package installation via unionfs would work right for this
file, but booting would not need unionfs to be running.
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