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Re: Package format/management ramblingss
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Package format/management ramblingss |
Date: |
Sat, 07 Aug 2004 17:20:09 -0400 |
What you are talking about sounds like /bin would get a translator.
And /sbin would get another, etc. That is where is looks like Soeren
got confused.
My idea is that they would all use the same translator, with slightly
different parameters.
AFAIK the idea is to have a translator set on "/", that is a union of
all subdirectories in /package/*. So /bin will be a union of
/packages/emacs/bin, /packages/bash/bin, etc.
We want /bin to be that union (with handling of conflicts, renaming, etc),
but it seems to me that doing this in the root is not the right method.
We don't want packages to be able to contribute to any and all directoris
in the system--only to specific directories such as /bin, /sbin, /etc,
that are designed for such use.
How about /package/*? The original idea was just to fill it with
symlinks to another directory where all packages can be found. For
example:
/package/emacs -> /packages/emacs-21
/package/bash -> /packages/bash-3.0
If one would decide to change the version that is used you would just
change a symlink. Installing a new package is just untarring it and
creating a symlink.
Yes, that's the plan.
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Soeren D. Schulze, 2004/08/02
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- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Soeren D. Schulze, 2004/08/02
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- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Soeren D. Schulze, 2004/08/02
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/03
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Soeren D. Schulze, 2004/08/04
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/05
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Marco Gerards, 2004/08/05
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/08/08
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/09
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/08/08
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Soeren D. Schulze, 2004/08/09
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/08/09
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Soeren D. Schulze, 2004/08/10
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/08/10
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Marco Gerards, 2004/08/09
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Soeren D. Schulze, 2004/08/10
- Re: Package format/management ramblingss, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/09