[haiku-development] Re: /apps and /preferences and the common folder
- From: Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:18:55 +0200
Axel Dörfler wrote:
OTOH, I think we should rename /boot/beos to /boot/haiku (or /boot/os) -
3rd party software shouldn't need to directly refer to anything in
/boot/beos, anyway, so the danger of breaking something is pretty low.
In any case, symlinks could help as a temporary solution, but I'm not
really fond of that solution.
Maybe this switch to correctly named and arranged folders should be done now (or at least
after the alpha). Install scripts are relatively easy fixed, even should the app itself be
closed source. If there are major problems with widely used software packages, there's
still the fallback with the admittedly horrid symlink solution you mentioned.
Also, the /boot/common/ hierarchy should be as strictly lived as currently possible, even
without multi-user support. One day it will probably happen and it's always better not
having to unlearn something again.
My 2 cents (EUR, though that is approaching quickly US...)
Regards,
Humdinger
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