Re: filesystem hierarchy

[Eli Green <eli@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-11-14, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:57:02PM +0100, Eli Green wrote:
> > It seems to me that DragonFly is not very far from the stated goal of
> > having multiple libraries as it is, using varsyms or maybe a slightly
> > specialized version of nullfs:
>
> [snip]
>
> (a) As Jeremy said, this is something pkgviews tries/tried to do.
> (b) This is a *huge* maintainance hassle.
>
> It works for Debian using the 1000 monkeys approach, but it doesn't work
> for a reasonable large (as in: small) team. E.g. keep in mind that it
> means splitting a single package into small pieces for the static
> libraries, header files, associated programs etc., as everything but the
> shared lib will conflict in the filesystem. This is a wonderful
> nightmare.

I don't understand why it would require packages to be broken up like
that. If anything, you wouldn't want that... the include directories
would be part of the same structure.

> Two of the things I mentioned in my EuroBSDCon talk will make the issue
> much less pressing -- stay tuned for that :-)

Well, it's not a pressing issue for me at all, I don't have any
BSD-based servers because I work for a company with its head up its ass,
technology-wise.