From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26979 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Jun 2003 20:10:18 -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 13573 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2003 20:10:17 -0000 Message-ID: <3EDFA3DD.8050006@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 22:11:09 +0200 From: Thomas Weidner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030503 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] little filesystem layout idea X-Archives-Salt: f6266794-a5ff-4515-9bd3-e8642df1b74e X-Archives-Hash: 040591c0e9c0256a57e374f1f802ac69 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