Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory

[Dustin Sallings]

On Friday, Sep 26, 2003, at 11:11 US/Pacific, Tom Lord wrote:

> I'm not going to try to give you a justification about it in this
> message.  For the purposes of _this_ discussion, we could just assume
> that it's an arbitrary choice, sure to please some and bother others
> -- in a design area where any hard-coded choice would be roughly
> equally arbitrary and pleasing-to-some yet annoying-to-others.

	Your message does a very good job of illustrating why it would be 
difficult to migrate from the current model to a variable model, 
although I disagree with the parts regarding dealing with other 
people's working directories.

	Personally, I don't think there's a problem having this hard-coded 
path.  I realize I'm a bit late, bit I'm questioning the choice.  The 
current choice has side-effects that are not at all related to its 
purpose.  Using a hidden name would make some of these side-effects go 
away.

	If the name is hidden, the people who want these side-effects can 
accomplish what the want a different way.

	If the name is not hidden, people who don't want the side-effects are 
SOL.

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Dustin Sallings