D J Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd like to see a standard place for package directories, independent of
> file storage. The obvious name is /package: e.g., /package/lprng, with
> programs in /package/lprng/bin and data in /package/lprng/spool.
[...]
> I mentioned this design on the FHS list a couple of years ago, and set
> up a mailing list for it (send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]),
> but not many people were interested. Bummer.
Someone was interested enough to write a Usenix paper about it, although I
believe it was independent invention. "SEPP -- Software Installation and
Sharing System" by Tobias Oetiker, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
Zurich. Everything is stored in /usr/pack. The focus there is more
towards sharing user executables across multiple machines, rather than
isolating subsystems on a single machine, but it's a very similar idea.
We do something quite similar for software management in AFS as well.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
