Hi, > How about a daemon (or service, or translator, or whatever) that would > monitor the "/Programs" directory where the new programs are > installed. And when that daemon sees a new program it automagicaly > does a "ln -s" for binaries, includes, libraries, etc. That "daemon" > could be triggered by the installation program, or it could just look > into /Programs from time to time to see if there are new directories > around (or it could just be croned to run every few minutes to update > the envvars if needed).
You have just reinvented stowfs in a non-Hurdish fashion. Congrats :-P I had the exact same Discussion recently with someone else, regarding the infodir translator. Of course, one *could* do it using some deamon and stuff. It's *always* possible to find some awkward solution to a problem, using limited standard UNIX mechanisms; that's what has been done on UNIX-like systems for the last 30 years or so, resulting in lots of bad software. In the Hurd, we can easily implement *new* mechanisms, more suitable for the task at hand, whenever we have some interesting problem to solve. Especially if it's as simple as writing a translator. This way we can save work, and also get better solutions: A translator creating a new view of the FS is much simpler, cleaner, more robust, more transparent, more compatible, more convenient etc. than some daemon running around and syncing directories in the background. -antrik- _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
