What he's saying is, rather than doing this, you should just have a utility that keeps the PATH environment variable updated (by adding hte packages' bin/ and sbin/ directories), updates ld.so.conf, and so on.
This would be a big step backward. It would result in gigantic PATH values, and the result would be that it is essentially useless and painful for users to set PATH themselves. Meanwhile, given the way envvars are inherited by child processes, it would be hard for this updating to propagate down to existing child processes. I think that is too many strikes against the idea. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd