[haiku-development] Re: alpha release window ?

Brecht Machiels <brecht@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > That would work more or less for "common", but not really for the 
> > user's config folder - I would consider the need to have an extra 
> > directory for this a kludge, at least given our directory 
> > structure.
> I'm not sure how you would handle the user's config folder. Can you 
> elaborate? I haven't given that part any thought yet.

Not sure what you want me to elaborate about, but the user's config/ 
folder more or less supersedes /boot/common/ - whatever is found there 
will be preferred over what's in /boot/common.
I would have imagined that packages go to special directories, like /
boot/common/packages/ (or even installed_packages) for system wide 
installations, and ~/config/packages/ for user local installations. The 
package file system would then show the installed package files either 
under /boot/common/ or ~/config/, depending on where the package is.

I wouldn't like to join this into a single directory (for the user), 
and have different views for each user - that would just be like 
calling for trouble (as the root user should see them all).

Bye,
   Axel.

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