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From: Svyatogor <svyatogor@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] little filesystem layout idea
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 10:19:22
Message-Id: 20030606131158.1d1b778c.svyatogor@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] little filesystem layout idea by Thomas Weidner
1 May I ask you then what is the point of having a /usr/qt/3/bin symlink at all?
2 The idea (as far as I understand) is that the programs are is spearate locations.
3 Expesially the one like qt, which stay in the place they were compiled.
4
5 On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 22:11:09 +0200
6 Thomas Weidner <yasea@×××.net> wrote:
7
8 > What about the following:
9 > instead of heaving /usr/X/Y, /usr/X/Y is a symlink to /usr/Y/X.
10 > so /usr/qt/3/bin whould be a symlink to /usr/bin/qt/3.
11 > the advantage? all binaries/libraries/headers/... are under a common
12 > subdirectory (/usr/bin,/usr/lib,/usr/include) and not spread in /usr.
13 > This could be usable in network environments where
14 > /usr/bin,/usr/share,... are mounted as NFS export. (and it's closer to
15 > the FHS....).
16 >
17 > bye Thomas
18 >
19 > PS: sorry for bad english
20 > PPS: i don't want another filesystem layout flame thread,it's just an
21 > idea....
22 >
23 >
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31 Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@g.o>
32 Let the Force be with us!
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Re: [gentoo-dev] little filesystem layout idea Thomas Weidner <yasea@×××.net>