On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:40:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Call me crazy, but I've always thought that soft symlinks could be great here: > - Put each package in it's own subdir under, say, /pkg. > - Next, put symlinks into /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /etc, ad nauseum, in order to > follow the Debian Policy. > > This way, you could have /pkg/qt2, /pkg/qt3, /pkg/kde2, etc... Maybe it's > the DOS mentality of 1 subdir per program, but I think this makes things very > organized. > > What's this about only 8500 sub-dirs in /usr?
The way he wrote the email/diagram he was putting each package under /usr/packagename. Chris
