[haiku-development] Re: /boot/common purpose
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:22:52 +0200
On 2008-04-23 at 15:37:31 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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 ;-)
After a few packages I realized that myself, but for sake of consistency I
continued with /boot/home/config. I'll change that when rebuilding all
packages.
CU, Ingo
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