On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:05:00 -0600 Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
True, but putting the packages directly under /usr is so "flat", and makes it impossible to put them on another partition. Maybe /usr/packages would be a better place, to (a) keep it under /usr, and (b) be able to mount it in a different partition. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | | | ! "Millions of Chinese speak Chinese, and it's not | ! hereditary..." | ! Dr. Dean Edell ! +------------------------------------------------------------+
