From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10809 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Jun 2003 12:03:19 -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 18372 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2003 12:03:19 -0000 Message-ID: <3EE1D4D2.2050103@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 14:04:34 +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 References: <3EDFA3DD.8050006@gmx.net> <20030606131158.1d1b778c.svyatogor@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20030606131158.1d1b778c.svyatogor@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: Re: [gentoo-dev] little filesystem layout idea X-Archives-Salt: 001a1936-6907-4926-89fd-b1b865635b5d X-Archives-Hash: 5bbf316fe8b5e4c909a6af73bfd58619 I think using a symlink will end up in a more FHS like filesystem. where all, also QT,KDE,..., libraries/header/... are in proper locations under /usr/lib,/usr/include,... . having /usr/qt and others is for me the first step to make a "windows-like" filesystem. As network admin, you don't need an extra mount entry for /usr/qt/3/lib, but only for /usr/lib. (if bins,libs,shares are mounted seperately which might happen in networks with several archs...) Svyatogor wrote: >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 >> >> >> >> > > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list