[haiku-development] Re: Package management - folder hierarchy

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:54:34 +0100

Le 12 janv. 2011 à 22:33, Jonas Sundström a écrit :

> Truls Becken Truls Becken <truls.becken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
>> Is /boot/apps as a symlink into /boot/common really desirable?
>> What if that directory is empty and all the useful stuff is in
>> home and system?
> 
> With system-wide apps in /boot/common and user-specific apps in 
> one's home folder, /boot/apps could be made a query instead of a folder.
> 
> Currently a BEOS:APP_SIG=* query might not be so usable or pleasing,
> but if a category attribute can be decided on and Tracker is re-
> written to allow additional view  modes (also for query results) 
> this could be presented as a structured, categorized list of apps.

As with 
http://revolf.free.fr/beos/shots/shot_query_based_menu.png
? :)

François.

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