Re: djblinux/djbos/"D. J. Bix"

"Nicholas E. Walker" <[email protected]> wrote:
> How about defining the set of directories living in / and what they
> all do?

<URL:http://cr.yp.to/slash.html> would seem to be an effort in that
direction.

> What are opinions about locating libraries?  A 'slashlib' or
> 'slashlibrary' like slashcommand, or do they stay under /package?

They can stay in /package.  It's easy enough to refer to them by full
pathnames.  Flattening the namespace requires more coordination among
developers.

> What about making ports (e.g. Paul's sp-foreign) first-class citizens of
> the sp hierarchy?

Stefan Karrmann registered text/gnu-ed-sk for his "port" of GNU ed.
Is that the sort of thing you had in mind?  (The word "port" doesn't
seem quite right to me.)

> What about an extension to the slashpackage format along the lines of
> making /package/..../command be a symlink to command-$(syst), allowing
> for precompiled tarballs and the ability to serve heterogenous systems
> from a single /package tree?

Have you read <URL:http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage/sharability.html>?


paul