From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19239 invoked by uid 1002); 6 Jun 2003 10:19:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31550 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2003 10:19:20 -0000 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:11:58 +0000 From: Svyatogor To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030606131158.1d1b778c.svyatogor@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <3EDFA3DD.8050006@gmx.net> References: <3EDFA3DD.8050006@gmx.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] little filesystem layout idea X-Archives-Salt: abf68c48-80a6-49c3-ad3a-dab4a04cb14e X-Archives-Hash: 46360d2730a33177522a6348a6a64783 May I ask you then what is the point of having a /usr/qt/3/bin symlink at all? The idea (as far as I understand) is that the programs are is spearate locations. Expesially the one like qt, which stay in the place they were compiled. On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 22:11:09 +0200 Thomas Weidner wrote: > What about the following: > instead of heaving /usr/X/Y, /usr/X/Y is a symlink to /usr/Y/X. > so /usr/qt/3/bin whould be a symlink to /usr/bin/qt/3. > the advantage? all binaries/libraries/headers/... are under a common > subdirectory (/usr/bin,/usr/lib,/usr/include) and not spread in /usr. > This could be usable in network environments where > /usr/bin,/usr/share,... are mounted as NFS export. (and it's closer to > the FHS....). > > bye Thomas > > PS: sorry for bad english > PPS: i don't want another filesystem layout flame thread,it's just an > idea.... > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Sergey Kuleshov Let the Force be with us! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list