Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 17:49:54 -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: <199506040049.RAA00769@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199506040009.RAA18431@freefall.cdrom.com> (jkh@freefall.cdrom.com)
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* I ran into an interesting problem putting the packages hierarchy on CDROM: * RockRidge definitely _does not like_ the `.packages' directory that * everything lands in - it doesn't complain but the resulting CD is bogus * with packages pointing nowhere. 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.... :< * Why not collapse this one level and just install all packages straight * into all, sylinking into that location? Right now, we just end up * wasting all those symlinks in the all directory! 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. 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.... Satoshi P.S. Don't tell me RockRidge collapses all names to lowercase. ;)
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