Re: The objectroot FHS

> I am not sure the naming clash issue is that important though. I could
> conceive of just having users, groups, orgs and hosts all in the toplevel
> directory together, though that might seems too unorganized, commands like
> `ls` could be modified to sort and/or color-code them according to type, so
> it's not that big a deal. My only concern doing it that way would be
> partitioning schemes. You couldn't just mount `users` to /dev/sda1` for
> instance --but maybe that's not that big a deal since one could create
> something like /system/partions/users -> /dev/sda1 and then symlink
> /system/partitions/users/{name} for all /{name} fairly easy.
>
>

I don't really like the partitions/users/{name} for all /{name} symlinking.
I'm just imagining a system with 100+ users. I'm not really sure I
understand. Why How does adding /groups/ prevent me from mounting sdaX to
/users/ ?

I don't like Nix hashes in directory names, but that's primarily because it
would seem to make things less intuitive to navigate. My opinion on the
system would be, avoid them if at all possible, but include them if
completely necessary. It's really a design decision that needs to be
thought through well from the beginning.

I said use Debian packages, but Liam says not to use deb packages. To my
knowledge this statement is not really true "The .deb format assumes that
stuff goes in all the usual Unixy places". It is the contents of deb
packages that determines where things go. I've created deb packages before,
and they install to the locations I tell them.

Now I think the issue really is, packages crossing distros. I think Liam
was thinking about using packages for Debian on a Gobo type system. So
there I could definitely see potential problems If the system cannot
properly handle a normal Linux program install, then a special package
format would be better. My question then would be, why can't the system
handle a normal Linux install? Is it a problem with the symbolic links?
Does Gobo have this problem? I was under the impression that Gobo could
handle these things.

If deb format was used, I think that anything concerning "problematic
packages" would be something not to worry to much about. For example, let's
say an Opensuse user tries to install an rpm made for Fedora. If it works,
then great! If it doesn't, then they shouldn't be very surprised.

The point is, not everything is going to be compatible, but when they are,
then that benefits everyone. Allowing packages to install from another
distro, there is nothing to lose and everything to gain.

I do agree completely with Liam about using apt. Very familiar interface.
Very nice system. No matter what package format, having Apt is a good idea.

As last note, I agree with everything concerning the preference of
scripting languages.

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