[gobolinux-users] Another /Programs folder

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 3/8/07, tim wylie <timwylie at hotmail.com> wrote:
> It's been awhile since I've been here, and the truth is because I've been
> using a different distribution  because I was doing a lot of audio
> production and didn't want to mess with trying to create recipes for all the
> programs I needed.  But now I'm trying to make the switch back and I have a
> question.
>
> I think Gobolinux can be a bit constraining in that there is no directory
> freedom when there should be a bit more.  I switched to Gobolinux because it
> simplified many things which I liked, but at the same time it didn't help in
> other areas.  I want my /Programs to be programs that I install and I can
> uninstall, but instead programs is a directory for everything installed
> which is daunting.  When I need to go to a folder I have tons of folders to
> dig through, and a lot of them I don't even know what they're for.  I think
> there should be something like /SystemPrograms or something where I can
> stick udev, kde, libs, etc and only keep what I want in /Programs.  Since
> everything is linked there really should be no problem with giving users the
> flexibility to have multiple program directories so long as one application
> does not reside in more than one.
>
> Anyway, just a thought.  This is my one problem with the system because the
> only workaround for this now is to install rootless for my user and that
> seems redundant since I'm running a gobolinux system.  Well, thanks for your
> time.

Well, you can keep a tree with symlinks for that. Just create a
wrapper around Compile/InstallPackage so that after each compilation a
symlink to the installed entry is created under /PersonalPrograms, for
example. In the end you'll have something like:

/PersonalPrograms/Audacious -> /Programs/Audacious
/PersonalPrograms/JACK -> /Programs/JACK
...

-- 
Lucas
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