Re: A bin for every program and every program in the bin. Oh--except...
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:49:46PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote:
> But I honestly ask the question. If /usr/games is such a great concept,
I think it is even more useless than /X11R6.
> I think one cannot defend /hurd based on the argument that binaries that
> are most useful in a specific execution environment set up by a parent
> program must be in a separate directory. Because then you should want
> /filters too, and people don't seem to. That's what I was saying.
Well, what you are saying doesn't make sense. It seems you still have not
understood the difference between filters and other programs in /bin on the
one hand, and the Hurd servers on the other.
> In that case I'd advocate /trans, *just* in case someone starts to
> implement true userspace filesystems in Linux or *BSD, and finishes
> before the Hurd does,
They are a couple of years too late already.
> so let's allow the
> possibility open that a Linux or BSD-based solution achieves Hurd's
> other goals (a user-based filesystem and filesystem-based services in a
> free OS), before the Hurd itself does.
It is already done. How about trying it out? It can not harm, you seem to
be interested in this issue, so I invite you to have a look.
Thanks,
Marcus
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