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On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 23:33, Eric Jacoboni wrote: |
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> >>>>> "Sven" == Sven Vermeulen <sven.vermeulen@××××××.be> writes: |
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Deciding what is nicessary and optional is not always so easy. For |
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me X is optional, for somebody else it is necessary. |
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The whole point with portage, is that the build scripts is just that .. |
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scripts in the well known bash (hopefully?!?). We go by FHS, if the |
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user want to deviate, that is his *desicison*. The easy way out ? |
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Sure, but it tends to give consistancy. |
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> Sven> This is as defined by the FHS. /usr/local is for programs that |
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> Sven> are compiled by sources not provided by the distribution. |
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> Oh, yes, i'm (sigh.) aware of the FHS. If /usr/local isn't |
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> appropriate, let's choose another : /usr/whatever... or /opt. Better: |
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> let the admin decide. |
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> I've chosen /usr/local because that the one i'm using on my BSD boxes |
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> but it's name is not important, after all. |
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> The point, here, is that portage system is a great thing, inspired by |
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> FreeBSD ports (as D. Robbins says). I would add that another great BSD |
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> thing is the separation between 'necessary' and 'optional'. We could |
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> also speak about what is 'necessary' and what is 'optional' on a Linux |
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> box (i think it depends of its targeted work). |
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> I think gkrellm, tcl/tk, ruby, emacs, gnome, kde, windomaker aren't |
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> 'necessary' as they're subject to user/admin own preferences. My |
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> vision, here, would be to find this distinction in my FS. In fact, if |
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> my /usr/local was on another disk, and if my / disk was dead, i should |
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> be able to reinstall GenToo on a new disk without having to rebuild |
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> anything else... (it suppose that shared libs and etc of /usr/local |
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> apps are also on /usr/local, as it happens to be on *BSD) /usr/local |
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> could also be shared by NFS (in this case, i'm agree with you, local |
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> is probably not the most appropriate name). |
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> As i said in my previous post, i find Linux is a great kernel but |
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> Linux distros are poor organized, imho. The portage system, as an 'open' |
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> (readable) packaging format, let us make some personnal choices (as |
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> compilation option), why not do so with install choices ? |
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> Sven> Ofcourse, being able to change it on the users request (f.i. |
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> Sven> ~$ export PREFIX=/usr/local; emerge gkrellm |
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> Sven> ) could be an interesting feature (although I'm not going to use it). |
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> Yes, i think a admin should be able to easily configure it FS |
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> organization. I've not lurked too close at the portage config files |
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> but, i think a config file containing a mapping between ebuilds and |
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> PREFIX would be a _great_ improvement over other Linux distros. |
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> At least, we could be able to use a PREFIX for a particular |
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> emerge. |
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