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On 12/14/05, Dirk Schönberger <dirk.schoenberger@×××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > To be honest, I don't really care about the name, but I don't feel like |
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> > having huge discussions about it either. We just chose something more |
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> > sexy than /sw. Besides that, having chosen a default, doesn't mean you |
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> > need to use it. We could name it like |
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> > /Library/GentooPortageInstalledPackages, but that really looks ugly in |
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> > your paths. Luckly there is shell completion, but it still is a bit too |
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> > ugly to me. |
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> > Finally, this is just a minor side issue, that I feel is completely |
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> > irrelevant regarding the state of the project. |
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> |
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> Sorry to be obnoxious, but I think the topic is rather relevant, at least |
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> IMHO. |
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> Basically you (Gentoo for OSX) have the problem, that you have to work on a |
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> system |
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> which is not really prepared to work with a system like Gentoo. |
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> |
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> The MacOSX file system hierarchy is a mix of two subsystems. |
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> First there is its Unix heritage, i.e. the /usr, /dev, /etc, /var hierarchy, |
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> Second there is more modern "MacOS usability system" (for lack of better |
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> words). |
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> The second system has whole other assumptions about what is in a systerm. |
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> Basically you have a set of applications |
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> (as app folders), in the /Applications folder, and components which play a |
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> support role to these applications, namely the |
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> /Libary, ~/Library, /System/Library hierarchy. |
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> |
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> Additionally at least the Mac default system is implemented so that the Unix |
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> hierarchy is hidden, i.e. not visible from the GUI system |
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> (finder) |
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> |
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> Conceptionally Gentoo belongs more to the Unix hierarchy, basically it tries |
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> to supplant a the static Mac Unix subsystem by a more dynamic, |
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> package managed system. Most (or at least currently all) of these packages |
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> are not suitable to a GUI system. |
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> So they should not be part of the second file system items. |
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> I think Gentoo should at least try to be a correct citizen on a Mac system, |
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> this includes it should honour the system assumptions. |
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> Regards |
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> Dirk |
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You're getting rather stuck on a tiny little issue for a system that |
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doesn't really exist yet. It's just a string! Rest assured that |
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before the final product is released the "correct" default path will |
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be selected. Until then, the system doesn't exist, and when it does, |
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you should be able to set it to whatever you want anyway, whethere |
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that's /Library/Gentoo, /opt/g2, or |
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/Volumes/usbdrive/.hidden/far_away/big/long/path/to/gentoo |
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~ Nathan |
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