[gobolinux-devel] Some suggestions for package management in GoboLinux

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

MJ Ray wrote:
> "Laércio Benedito de Sousa Júnior" wrote:
>> - Append revision numbers in Recipes/Packages version numbers [...]
> 
> This has been discussed in the past.  I don't recall the outcome.

I think it will come later?

>> - Introduce a special directory for package management specific purposes and
>> let packages (or the user) choose under which prefix they will be installed.
> 
> Aieee, please no!  One nice thing about gobolinux is the relative lack
> of package manager clutter.  Maybe there could be a way to install
> packages under /Files and then link them under /System, but I'm not
> sure how easily that could be done.

If a package should be symlinked under /System/Links, then just put it
in /Programs as usual. As I understand it, /Files is for stuff that does
not fit in the usual layout, and where the user/admin wants to add small
files now and then (like /Files/Fonts). But it would be nice if Compile
and InstallPackage could install things to /Files too. One could have a
recipe to download some set of fonts and put them under /Files/Fonts,
perhaps with a prompt to optionally modify the destination directory...

On the other hand, there already is a /System/Links/Shared/fonts used by
KDE and OpenOffice it seems...
And many stuff looks for plugins under /S/L/Shared/... as well. For
example GStreamer.

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