The current plan takes a package and makes it's bin/ directory appear to be included in /bin, takes the package's usr/ directory and makes it appear to be included in /usr, and so on. What he's saying is, rather than doing this, you should just have a utility that keeps the PATH environment variable updated (by adding hte packages' bin/ and sbin/ directories), updates ld.so.conf, and so on.
Richard M. Stallman wrote: > when you build a program to work on an directory, all that you will > need from that package is the binary location. > > I do not understand any of that. I think you need to give labels > to the various entities that you are talking about, and describe > their relationships clearly. > > > What you will need is, instead stowfs, that get package/bin and > merge it on /bin, is a translator that gets package/bin and put it > on PATH. The same is valid for /lib and /sbin (I know no variable > to set "include" directories). > > That is very vague, so I don't see how it differs from our present > plans. > > > _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss > mailing list gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss > _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
