[haiku-development] Re: Removing /boot/common
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:31:25 +0200
On 09/23/2013 12:38 AM, looncraz wrote:
I've always viewed /boot/system as being essentially read-only except to
the system, /boot/common has read/write, and each user has their own
directory but can't access the others.
Yep, that was the idea originally.
I like it that way...
I did, too, but, as explained, it simply cannot work that way.
Given that the discussion has died down and I haven't seen any technical
argument against it, I would like to go ahead and start the change.
There are quite a few components affected, so this task may take a bit
to complete. Fortunately it should be possible to do that in multiple steps:
1. Add write support to system and reroute the writable directories from
common to system (find_directory(),
<headers/private/system/directories.h>, hard-coded paths).
2. Remove common as a package installation location by adjusting build
system, package manager, package kit, packagefs, etc.
3. Reroute all common paths to system (find_directory(),...) and remove
/boot/common.
4. Remove support for common (search paths etc.) from all components.
CU, Ingo
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