[gobolinux-users] Another /Programs folder

[Viola Zoltán]

An idea - what is your opinion?

Should be a /Categories directory. And if the user install a program
(package) with Compile or InstallPackage, can add to the commandline an
option "cathegorie". For ekzample:

Compile Xaos -C graphical

("-C" say to "Cathegorie")

Or:

Compile Xaos -C games

Or:

InstallPackage Xaos 3.12.4 -C fractal

And, in these case, the install program (Compile or InstallPackage) should
make a symlink to the Categories directory, into its subdirectory: into the

/Categories/graphical or
/Categories/games or
/Categories/fractal, etc.

If an named categorie-subdirectory , for ekzample "fractal" does not exist,
the install program should write an question to the user, make it or not.

The installed program should installed in all case to the /Programs,
effective, really, of course, in /Categories should be only symbolic links!

if -C option in commandline not exist, the installer make not any symbolic
link to /Categories.

What you means?

This is me not be sure significant, it is only interesting, curious.

Zoli


2007/3/11, Andy Feldman <nereusren at gmail.com>:
>
> On 3/10/07, Viola Zoltán <violazoli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > But it is "hard job" to decide, any program should be in which
> categorie!
> > For ekzample XaoS - it is a "mathematical" program, or "graphical" or
> > "games" or "other"?!
>
> That's my main problem with the suggestion. It's too arbitrary.
>
> >  It is me good idea maximum 2 categories:
>
> Didn't you originally suggest having full program categorizations? :-)
> Maybe I misunderstood something...
>
> I wouldn't mind having the easy capability to maintain two or more
> programs folders, like Carlo described. It would let the user choose
> how they want to make the distinction. One user might use it as a
> "booting" programs versus "other" programs because of partitioning
> reasons (like Zoli). Others might use it as "InstallPackaged" programs
> versus "programs I made the recipe for" so they remember which they
> can and should submit as packages. I might use it for the programs
> that I might want to navigate to in Konqueror, since going into the
> current programs tree in a GUI is pretty iffy with how large it is. I
> could stick all the "forgettable" programs in one folder, and use the
> other one for manual navigation to configs and whatnot when I don't
> feel like using the command-line. I could also see myself using it to
> separate the programs I hacked into my system without a valid recipe,
> so I know who to blame when something about them breaks :-) and so I
> remember which ones I can't just upgrade with NewVersion.
>
> However it's implemented, if at all, it should be transparent to
> people who prefer to stick with only one /Programs folder. After all,
> Carlo apparently stopped maintaining the implementation because there
> was little or no interest in it. Also, GoboLinux is supposed to get
> away from meaningless distinctions in the filesystem hierarchy.
> Despite the realistic use cases that have been presented, it feels too
> much like bin/sbin for me to request it as an "official" model of
> organization to standardize on in any way. If you have a specific need
> (like having a very small or slow root partition), there should be
> just enough functionality there to let you do that yourself, without
> other people being affected by something they don't need.
>
> -Andy
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