Re: New package system design draft

Pete Ware <ware(a)cis.ohio-state.edu&gt; writes: > Can one share package directories across machines and architectures > (cf. etc/) That's a good point. Perhaps the most important argument against having all files related to a package under a single directory. There's already a problem with the lib-src subdir, and will be another one when we start having packages with C modules in them. It would really be a pity not to fix this problem in the Great Package Overhaul. The fact is that most of the packages subdir already exist in the GNU Coding Standards. - etc, info, man exist. - lisp should go under .../share - lib-src actually belongs to libexec. - lib could then be used for C modules. So I think instead of having a single directory for a particular package, we could replicate this hierarchy under all needed standard directories, with the same naming policy.