Re: Improving GNU PM translator

[Richard Stallman]

    GNU PM translator, will involve / and we can set it to act on
    /bin /sbin /usr/bin or whatever else directory we want.
    Translator I am talking about, is a translator for /packages itself.
    It may be written later, so probably is not the moment to talk about it
    with other messages.

If we want to provide a convenient GUI interface for /packages, it
should not be a translator.  The nature of a translator is that it
handles *all* access to the name that it implements.  If /packages had
a translator which presented symlinks to subdirs as if they were direct
subdirs, no program could determine that they are really symlinks.

The convenient install/deinstall interface should therefore be implemented
in a different way, not through a translator.