Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/11/17/12:33:18
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:29:20PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 04:15:56PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>>My mail is currently broken inbound... so I'm replying from the list
>>archives..
>>
>>===
>>Ah! Sorry about that.
>>
>>The idea of putting things under categories was something that I
>>originally proposed but I wasn't entirely sure that it was ok.
>>
>>I wonder if we shouldn't just dispense with any hierarchy at all and put
>>all of the packages in their own subdirectory, like ftp.gnu.org?
>>
>>cgf
>>===
>>
>>A flat structure may not scale efficiently on some systems. I was (for
>>obvious reasons I hope) against a category based directory structure,
>>but pretty much anything else should be fine :].
>>
>>As for putting multiple pacakges in the same dir - yes thats good but
>>let me get setup.hint subsumed into the package file first...
>
>No. No multiple packages in the same directory. Every package gets
>their own directory.
Just to clarify: By "no multiple packages", I mean that I don't want to
see (to pick an extreme example) ash-blah.tar.bz2 and
binutils-blah-tar.bz2 in an ash+binutils directory.
cgf
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