Re: Bootup and package managment (and a small status report)

[Michael J. Flickinger]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:56:25AM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>        But it is needed.  One needs to have some place to extract all
>        the files that are needed to make GNU boot, run, and be usable,
>        and from there create symbolic links to what I call /stow.
> 
>    Every package needs to be somewhere, but there does not need to be
>    a standard place to put them.  It would be ok to have a "default,
>    usual" place to put them.
> 
> Right, and this was all that what I called /packages was.
> 
>    The name `/stow' is not clear and should not be used.  In my design
>    I called this `/packages'.  Another good name would be
>    `/installed'.
> 
> I still think that /stow is far clearer than /installed.  Users who
> are already familiar with GNU stow, will understand directly what will
> happen when you put a symbolic link in /stow.  But lets not worry
> about this right now, we should have something that is usable first
> before we consider these types of details...
> 
>        Why shouldn't /hurd be managed by unionfs?  Translators are
>        installed there, it isn't much different from /bin or /libexec.
> 
>    There is no reason why we should use one directory for both
>    translators and the Hurd executables.  /hurd should be used for one
>    or the other.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by Hurd executables, but if I think you
> mean executables that are just part of the Hurd, then they are
> installed in /bin and /sbin (and some stuff in /libexec).  /hurd is
> _only_ used for translators (which are also executables), and this has
> always been the case.
> 
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I think /stow/ would work and I'm not in opposition to it, since the word does 
describe what it's 
going to be used for rather well.  But if /stow won't fly, I'd be fine with 
something like /pkg/, 
as /packages is long and /pkg is short, sweet, and another fun three-lettered 
root directory.

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Michael J. Flickinger