Re: 1.6.0 problems with libguilereadline-v-12 and fix

[Rob Browning]

address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Adopting slashpackage means abandoning the FHS, but if Guile wants
> to convert in spite of that, I'd be thrilled.  (Actually, you could
> maintain both traditional and slashpackage versions, though I don't
> know how much extra work that would be.)

Hmm.  Way back I used to find that approach appealing, but that was
before I got comfortable with unix.  For my system at least, now that
I use Debian (and it's *good* packaging system) I prefer having all
the conffiles in one subtree, all the executables in another, all the
variable data, etc., but I suspect this is probably a discussion for
some other list...

Last I heard the FSF, at least, was headed further in the direction of
per-type dirs, rather than away from it.  If I understood correctly in
the HURD they have just /bin /lib /var, etc.  However I suppose with
their union fs (where you can merge directories from different
locations onto one mount point), the distinction is a little hazy.
You could still use your approach and just mount /opt/*/bin on /bin,
etc.  Though I wonder how well that would scale for the 1400+ packages
I have installed here :> Suppose it might be fine.

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Rob Browning
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