From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:17:35 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20100328131735.GA2390@polynum.com> References: <116f80ebe8eb00f5abc98350c8159bb7@yyc.orthanc.ca> <13426df11003260956v7be21565vadb9e5b6c3f25d81@mail.gmail.com> <20100326215054.GA364@polynum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100326215054.GA364@polynum.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons: pax? Topicbox-Message-UUID: f63dc258-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >>From the diverse input, wouldn't it be more logical to do the following: 1) All "contrib" packages write in /$objtype/bin, /rc/bin and /sys/man (or /man, see 3). 2) It's up the user to "bind -c" in /$objtype/bin, /rc/bin and /sys/man so that written files end where he wants. Depending on who installs, so depending on the namespace, all flavors can be achieved (system wide or individual). 3) Shouldn't /man and /rc/bin be, as /bin, "empty unwritable directories, place holders", with an initial bind(1) (without "-c"; probably $objtype agnostic either, since almost all programs are supposed to exist in an $objtype flavor for man, and should not be a concern for rc) of /sys/man and (new) /sys/rc/bin there? Note: in this scheme /rc/bin is more a mean (an undirection) so that rc programs end in the correct place than something usefull at use time, since it ends probably bind'ed in /bin. -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C