On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 13:26 +0100, Ilyes Gouta wrote: > Hi, > > Obviously one has to set up $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to get programs > running properly. /usr/bin would be populated with scripts that do > exactly that so that the change is transparent to the user. But that's > really the implementation part of the idea, let's stick to the concept > for the moment.. Isn't having one folder per application a nice > feature? Why? I think there's an important point missing here: it's perfectly possible to package two versions of an application within a distribution packaging repository, in a way that's compliant with the FHS - if that's what you want to do. You could certainly build firefox2 and firefox3 packages that could be installed together and did not conflict, within the Fedora repositories, in a way that satisfied all Fedora packaging guidelines and the FHS. It is not inherently impossible or even particularly difficult. The reason we don't do this is not "because our filesystem layout makes it impossible" but "because we have no interest at all in providing Firefox 2 as a supported piece of software in Fedora". > What I'm emphasizing here is separation for more flexibility. I don't think it's necessary. The difference between /opt/firefox-2/firefox and /usr/bin/firefox-2 isn't as big as you seem to think. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
