Michael Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
PATH variables are such a bad idea. They seem so nice and elegant, but they are horrible ways to slow systems down, and introduce so many difficult-to-diagnose bugs. Like /usr, we can't make them go away, but we certainly can avoid relying on them and making the situation worse. Thomas _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
