* Emile van Bergen writes: > On Wed, 22 May 2002, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:43:44PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: >> I thank you for your opinion on this, but we really have to move on.
> You keep trying to blow a smoke screen around the architectural issue. > I don't understand why. Remember that *you* want something from Debian, > (the addition of /hurd), not the other way around. *You* are the one > under the obligation to answer *why* you *need* a separate /hurd > directory. Frankly, right now it is only you who are blowing this nice huge smoke screen. It is Debian that wants _us_ to remove /hurd, this directory has existed since a long time, probably longer than Debian has existed.. If people have this really annoying problem with one stupid root directory, why did you not speak up sooner? Marcus, Thomas and a bunch of other people have stated why this directory exists. Is it so hard to understand? Translators don't belong in /bin, /libexec, /lib/whatever, they belong in /hurd. Unless you have an better place that we can all agree upon. Right now you're just bitching and moaning that we have a directory that GNU/Linux doesn't have in its root, without actually giving a reason why it should not exist there in the first place. We, the Hurd community, has repeatedly stated why we need/want a directory where we can put translators in. I can give you another reason why a special directory for translators should exist, it makes life easier to see what cute translators the system has without having to wade through the hell that exists in /bin. I doubt that you would want to look at a listing of totally unrelated crap when your looking for a specific translator for a specific job. Putting it in /libexec is wrong because users actually use translators, which is opposite of what /libexec is supposed to do. /lib/whatever is also wrong because translators are not libraries, and typing "settrans -a ~/ftp /lib/whatever/ftpfs / ftp.gnu.org" is quite annoying in the long run. So, now you might ask why the directory is called /hurd instead of /translators or whatever? Do you know what the Hurd means? Hird of Unix Replacing Daemons. I think that this is an appropriate name for what exists in /hurd, a bunch of "daemons" that replace the functionality that Unix has, but as user-space programs. Quite appropriate don't you think? Now that I am almost done with my rant, could you give us a couple of reasons why this directory should not exist? And why are you not as upset about /servers or /libexec as you seem to be about /hurd? I really can't understand why people become so upset about one silly directory. Why can't you just accept the fact that one such directory exists? It isn't harming anyone. :) And anyone on debian-devel who is going to remove the CC's, please don't. Some people are not subscribed to that list. -- Alfred M. Szmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]