Date: Sat, 03 Jun 1995 18:52:31 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Satoshi Asami) Cc: ports@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Change in the package hierarchy organization requested Message-ID: <5181.802230751@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jun 95 17:49:54 PDT." <199506040049.RAA00769@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> That's an interesting problem...that RockRidge thing (I assume it's a > CDROM burner?) does the same to all the directory names that start > with ``.''? If so, I think you need to get that fixed, regardless of > the package situation.... :< It's our mkisofs program (well, Yggdrasil's but in our tree) that does it! :_( Yes, I've tried to fix it, but just try loking at that code sometime! It's not fun! :-) > The idea was to put the packages in a hidden directory, or at least > something that looks significantly different from the others so that > users can easily distinguish the directories that are safe to "get > <dir>.tar.gz" with those that aren't. True enough, but consider all.tar.gz. Can you really say that someone grabbing it isn't _already_ pretty much in the market for all of them? :-) > I'm not sold to the idea of using "all", it is the first thing that > shows up but that's only by accident and also it looks like all the > others. Hmm, maybe we can use "All" or "ALL" instead? That won't > help people who do "get *.tar.gz", but at least it will look very > different.... 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? I think it goes without saying that all those symlinks in all are a total waste! Jordan
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