Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Eddie C. Dost" <> | Subject | Re: packages and the kernel | Date | Sun, 2 Jun 1996 05:41:36 +0200 (MET DST) |
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> On Fri, 31 May 1996, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > (clip) > > > > More radical: Have a filesystem that can be mounted with two different > > directory structures, the package view and the user view. From the > > package view, root installs software packages by putting each one in > > its own directory. Root marks each file with a type (like the Mac). > > Files marked as type bin automatically show up in /usr/bin and they > > disappear when removed from the package view. You might have to give > > up hard links, but that is a good idea anyway (for reverse lookups).
Aargh.
> Kernel side : if you are going to use the kernel, keep track of all package > files by what 'package' they belong to in the same way you track user/group. > > Now, you still need distributions, but: > > Rules: > 1. A file created by standard methods would belong to the package the
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> 2. files made by login shells belong to a 'package' of the user's name. (this won't get
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> 3. new file creation functions or fcntl stuff can be made to allow users
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and 4, 5, 6, ...
> current dist. methods... the umsdos type kludge, with an eye for eventual ^^^^^^ Please, think Un*x, keep this to somewhere off-topic, like huge-kernel-useless-overhead ;-)
Sorry, just don't like it, Eddie.
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