Andy> At 10:05 PM 6/27/99 +0200, Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] wrote: Andy> Why? Call me heretical but we have manifest files so we know which files Andy> are in a package, doesn't this mean we could just have one directory if we Andy> so chose? Name clashes could be resolved by careful naming. At least having Andy> the option would be cool. I should have been clearer: This ties in with a package system overhaul which is aware of multiple versions of the same package. This necessarily means that name clashes occur, and this in turn means that they must reside in separate directories. The whole concept of manifest files which contain completely redundant information sucks. In the new framework I envision, it would probably be easier to optionally keep some sort of central-file database in synch with the actual package layout which in turn would save us a lot of stats. I know I won't be the one to implement it. I really hate the fact that we're catering on the XEmacs side to what's really a performance bug in the OS. High-performance remote filesystems (like AFS) essentially solve the whole problem. -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla