[haiku-development] Re: Haiku, Inc. in Contempt of Its Community

  • From: pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 14:50:10 -0800

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:06:09AM -0800, Jim Saxton wrote:
> 
> The proper way to accomplish this would have been to leve the
> directory system as it was under the home directory but add a
> "Packaged" directory tree. ~/config/Packaged. This way anything in the
> "packaged" directory would be read-only, and anything in the normal
> directory tree would stay read/write. This way, an app that drops libs
> in say ~/config/lib would still work without needing to be packaged.
> 
> This would have had nothing to do with how PM works, only with the
> directory naming and presentation to the user.
> 
> So many frustrations, conflicts,  and bad relations could have been avoided.

I've been keeping quiet through all this, because last time I spoke up a few 
months
ago I just got dumped on.  (:-/)   So I'll just say:

+1 !

> 
> Again though, this is water under the bridge at this point and not
> wrth persuing.
> 
And I still rather wish it wasn't...

        -- Pete --

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