On Sunday 28 March 2004 00:34, Gary L Greene Jr wrote: > > This is a proposal for a standard to accommodate the accessibility of the > filesystem by end-users. We request discussion on this as a new standard. The > URL to get to the document is: > > http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/~abreschm/uafhs/ > > I am a member of the Ark Linux team, who is interested in seeing the Linux > desktop become a viable option. I apologize for the cross-posting. > I really dislike all these hidden dotfiles/dotdirs in my home directory and am happy to see someone is working on this. I was thinking it would be better if we had ~/etc/bashrc instead of ~/.bashrc and so on, but I see much more general ideas here, so here's what I think looking at it: Let's say we have program foo from package foo-1.0-1.sparc.rpm which has a .desktop file in ~/.<distribution>/share/applications/foo.desktop. --- cut --- +------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | ~/.<distribution>/share/ | Architecture independent files used by programs | | | in ~/.<distribution>/<architecture>/bin/ | +--------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+ --- cut --- In this case if a user uses his home from a nfs share on ix86 mahine he/she will see this application in his/her kde/gnome start menu, but will not be able to run it (it is the sparc version, not the ix86). Another problem could be shared files that are little-endian/big-endian dependent. The space could be saved by hardlinking identical files which are not suposed change without being removed first (/usr/share/doc/*/*). What about uafhs being configurable via /etc/uafhs? It could be something like 'UAFHSBASE="$HOME/uafhs/$ARCH/$DIST-$DIST_VER"'. This way only a script will be needed to setup this variable at login time and the install tools should be made UAFHS-aware (or at least I hope so). The main idea is to allow a user to login from same/different distribution(s) and architecture(s) simultaneously. I have RH9 + FC1 with shared /home partition and this leads to many problems with all .dot(files|dirs) in my home dir (kde for example) even without logging in simultaneously. ps: sorry for my english... -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev Registered Linux User #291323 at counter.li.org GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/DA454F79 Key fingerprint = 684F 688B C508 C609 0371 5E0F A089 CB15 DA45 4F79
