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- From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: reorganize linux ftp sites ???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.193303.29138@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:33:03 GMT
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- Might it be time to consider reorganizing the directory structure
- of the Linux ftp sites? So many people are working on so much
- and being so successful that it's virtually impossible to figure
- out where to get what. Is it reasonable to expect people to read
- an upload announcement of 'freds utilities assortment' and understand
- that it's the exact thing they need ?
-
- I was thinking that maybe there needs to be an organization more
- along product lines so it's obvious where to grab stuff. The
- current usr.bin doesn't do much for me. If you don't know where
- it should go, you can't figure out where to grab it.
-
- There are basic things in any working system and other things that
- some users don't feel are as essential. I come up with this:
-
- - kernel (sources/patches/docs too...)
- - basic utilities (/bin)
- - added utilities (/usr/bin)
- - X11 and stuff
- - communications packages (terminal emulation, not uucp)
- - uucp and e-mail packages
- - usenet software
- - compilers
- - text processing
- - editors
- - maybe a whole branch for gnu ?
- - incoming stuff...
- - compilations of various kits (mcc, mj, [r|b]ootimage)
-
- It might be worth considering moving goodies around to make the
- directory structure a little clearer. Each file in the archives is
- there to do something, indicating what it does by its place in the
- tree on the archive sites might be somewhat self-documenting...
-
- Also, each tree should have something like:
- - binaries
- - sources
- - patches from the 'normal' sources
- - info files (readme's, etc.)
-
- So, you want to grab a copy of smail3.1 ?, cd to /pub/linux/mail
- and grab bin/smail3.1pl25 for binaries, src/smail3.1pl25 for
- preconfigured-for-linux sources, etc.
-
-
- thoughts ?
-
- --
- Vince Skahan vince@halcyon.com (here)
- vince@atc.boeing.com (work) vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (home)
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