[gobolinux-users] Solution for situation when more programs provide same file

Isaac Dupree isaacdupree at charter.net
Fri Jun 29 22:37:23 UTC 2007


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Carlo Calica wrote:
> On 6/29/07, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
>> Sure, Konqueror (or some program that actually depends on file
>> name/extension, I don't know. I think atool does.) will interpret it
>> differently if you try to look at / do something to it.
>>
> 
> Is that an actual use case?  I view this as metadata for our package tools.

probably not, it just seems more gobo-ish-ly reliable to me to keep
files in the filesystem in close to standard form.  unix/gnu/linux isn't
big on requiring files to be named in particular ways.

Isaac
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