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. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnu-system-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss >
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 _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
