[haiku-development] Re: /boot/common purpose
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:37:31 +0200 CEST
Grzegorz Dąbrowski <grzegorz.dabrowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:16:31 +0200 CEST
> "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It should contain everything that is not part of the system, and
> > valid or thought for more than one user.
> > For example, third party applications could be installed in common.
> > Also, distributions that want to override Haiku's default settings
> > would place their files in there.
> > In future versions, 3rd party drivers will need to be installed
> > there; the kernel will not allow user drivers anymore.
> So why optional packages like perl and autotools uses /boot/home/config
> instead of /boot/common?
Because their creator obviously did not think about that new directory ;-)
They really should go there instead.
Bye,
Axel.
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