Re: Progress on a "spiritual" derivation of GoboLinux

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Trans <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:35 AM, kenneth marken <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Some plans for 015 was more ambitious than that.
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>> They included reworking /System/Links into something similar to the HFS
>> root layout for ease of compiling (/System/Index was it?).
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>> I think the plan was that you could in essence drop a union mount on top
>> of the new /S/L, set the --prefix to /S/L, compile and empty the result into
>> a /Programs/x.y.z dir tree for symlinking back into /S/L.
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> I read up some more on that thanks to links provided (thank guys!). One
> thing I did not quite git though. Is S/I/ going to contain bin/, include/,
> share/ and so on instead of S/L's current Executables, Header and Shared?
/System/Index would be the same as, and possibly actually called,
/usr. That was the point, to be an FHS analogue that everything could
work against and use as an installation path.

To the other messages, categorical namespacing of programs is silly,
arbitrary, and purposeless.
-Michael