On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Michael Homer <mich...@gobolinux.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Lucas C. Villa Real
> <luca...@gobolinux.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Jonas Karlsson <cj.karls...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2009/12/8  <luca...@svn.gobolinux.org>:
>>>> Author: lucasvr
>>>> Date: 2009-12-08 02:56:57 -0800 (Tue, 08 Dec 2009)
>>>> New Revision: 4198
>>>>
>>>> Added:
>>>>   branches/015/Scripts/share/
>>>> Removed:
>>>>   branches/015/Scripts/Shared/
>>>> Log:
>>>> Shared -> share
>>>>
>>> Don't we still need Shared to hold the application specific files
>>> while share is a symlink to /S/I/share?
>>
>> Not with /System/Index anymore. Apps are compiled with
>> prefix=/System/Index, so they will all search for shared files under
>> /System/Index/share. The Shared + share scheme would only be useful if
>> we were to support legacy packages, but I don't think that's worth it,
>> as those can always be recompiled.
> I don't think it needs to be possible to install older packages, but I
> do want it to be possible to migrate an existing system if it's
> remotely doable. That probably means keeping some support for the
> share/Shared link in at least SymlinkProgram. Eventually everything
> would have been upgraded and it won't be an issue any more, but it
> will be during the transition.

Having that support in SymlinkProgram is better, then. I can commit
support for that in the 015 branch tomorrow after I start to migrate
some old packages to my new rootfs.

-- 
Lucas
"If you're looking for a reason I've a reason to give: pleasure,
little treasure"
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