Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 22:06:40 -0700 From: asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Satoshi Asami) To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com Cc: ports@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Change in the package hierarchy organization requested Message-ID: <199506040506.WAA01409@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <5181.802230751@freefall.cdrom.com> (jkh@freefall.cdrom.com)
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* I don't see why it needs to! all means all. Am I the only one who * finds any added distinction somewhat strange and unnecessary? Because it's different. The lowercase directories contain only symlinks. I'm saying that the one special directory that contains the actual files should look distinctly different. "all" is not a very special name. For instance, there can be "all-x11" that contains all the programs that use X (not only the ones that are X utilities like our current "x11"), but this should be a symlink tree. * I think it goes without saying that all those symlinks in all are * a total waste! Hey, it's not my doing! It's you that added the "all" category to bsd.port.mk.... ;) Also, there is a bug in the shell globbing that causes "*/linkname" to fail (expands into "*/linkname" instead of "dir/linkname") when the link target is nonexistent, this may screw up automated scripts to move packages around. I would like to keep a way to distinguish directories easier (and capitalization is one such way). If everything collapses into the single format, it will cause a major headache for me. Satoshi
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