[haiku-development] Re: /apps and /preferences and the common folder
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:35:25 +0200 CEST
> Ideally, I'd love to see companies like nVidiea and AMD/ATI put
> drivers in
> /common, this way there is a clean seperation between Haiku
> components and
> 3rd party components, even when it comes to drivers.
You wish :)
> Going forward, when Haiku updates come along (eg. R2, R3 etc), a user
> will
> typically override their entire /boot/os directory. Haiku inheriting
> from
It'd likely be handled by an updater app, or at worst unzipping a file,
neither of which replace the target folders.
Besides in beos/etc there are system config files you really don't want
to reset.
> BeOS still probably has the annoying directory replace vs directory
> merge
> problem when copying directories. 3rd party drivers which are still
> probably compatible will be destroyed. Hence keeping 3rd party
> drivers in
> /common makes sense. /boot/os should be off limits to everyone. I'd
> even
> go as far as forbidding any user, even the superuser from touching /
> boot/os.
root cannot be restricted, or it's not root anymore.
> Only the OS install process can do it, and that boots from seperate
> media
> or introduce a 'god' account.
root is god, there is noone above him.
I certainly don't want to go the windows route where not even windows
itself can do things it should.
I won't go into the usual troll about whether root should be allowed to
destroy the machine or not. Depends on spiritual beliefs in quantum
physics.
François.
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