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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Modified load-path proposal
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:20:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pspl1ojg.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oe56zhus.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:48:43 +1100")

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> What advantage is this over putting a symlink in /usr/share/guile/site
> to point to this alternate location?

Nothing really compelling, perhaps, but...

- some OSs don't have symlinks (i.e. Windows)

- the symlink approach doesn't work if a package installed with one
  prefix wants to install (database mysql) and a different package
  with a different prefix wants to install (database postgres)

- in my view, installing an init.d file (under $sysconfdir) feels less
  polluting of the distribution-managed part of the filesystem than
  putting a symlink into /usr/share/guile/site.

> What is the wherever/my/scheme/files/are directory likely to be?
> Guile library packages wouldn't be sprayed randomly across all four
> corners of the disk would they?

In practice I would guess not.  Most distribution-managed packages
would go into /usr/share/guile, and most home-built packages into
/usr/local/share/guile, I'd guess.  What is your concern, though?

     Neil



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-31 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-13 18:21 Modified load-path proposal Neil Jerram
2005-10-13 18:40 ` Greg Troxel
2005-10-13 22:08   ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-14  0:37     ` Greg Troxel
2005-10-14  1:28       ` Andreas Rottmann
2005-10-15 11:17         ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-15 15:03           ` Greg Troxel
2005-10-15 17:53             ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-22 23:16           ` Kevin Ryde
2005-10-28 17:45             ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-30 18:04               ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-30 18:15                 ` Tomas Zerolo
2005-10-30 20:37                 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-10-30 22:59                   ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-31 10:55                     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-10-31 19:22                       ` Neil Jerram
2005-11-08 12:37                         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-10-31 13:17                   ` Tomas Zerolo
2005-10-30 23:48                 ` Kevin Ryde
2005-10-31 13:20                   ` Tomas Zerolo
2005-10-31 19:20                   ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2005-10-31 23:54                     ` Kevin Ryde
2005-11-12  9:47                       ` Neil Jerram
2005-11-01 23:31                     ` Vorfeed Canal
2005-11-12 17:54                       ` Neil Jerram
2005-11-02  8:44                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-12-03 13:05                   ` Neil Jerram
2005-12-13  8:38                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-12-16  0:16                       ` Neil Jerram
2005-12-16  1:00                         ` Neil Jerram
2005-12-16  9:55                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-01-07 13:37                           ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-11  4:49                             ` steve tell
2006-01-12 18:01                               ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-15 11:24       ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-15 15:01         ` Greg Troxel
2005-10-15 17:49           ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-14  7:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-10-15 11:55   ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-15 15:40     ` Greg Troxel
2005-10-17  8:04       ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-10-17 17:52         ` Greg Troxel
2005-10-18  8:23           ` Search path for C libraries Ludovic Courtès
2005-10-18 10:12             ` Vorfeed Canal
2005-10-17 17:54         ` Modified load-path proposal Neil Jerram
2005-10-18  7:57           ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-10-19 22:30             ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-20  7:56               ` Vorfeed Canal
2005-10-20  8:05               ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-10-20 22:23                 ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-21  7:59                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-10-17 18:10       ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-18 16:16         ` Greg Troxel
2005-10-18 21:24           ` Vorfeed Canal
2005-10-19 22:29           ` Neil Jerram

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