Re: Proposal to change non-flattened build behavior

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 5 Jun 2016, at 10:06, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Sounds great to me. The non flattened structure hasn't had much use in the 
> last ten years. It would be even better if we could do this completely as a 
> file system layout. That is have variables for architecture etc in the file 
> system layout file and resolve those at runtime. Not sure whether this is 
> possible at all, but it seems so much nicer to have one general mechanism 
> instead of two separate ones.

Yes, but I see something like that as a second step ... first get our 
architecture-specific naming compatible with debian, then figure out how to map 
our paths to debian paths for installed software.
I don't think substitution into paths in the filesystem layout is sufficient 
(though it might be part of what we want to do), because the basic problem is 
that we use bundles, frameworks, app-bundles; all of which collect resources 
together in one dictionary, but the strict (ie Debian) FHS interpretation 
separates those resources out into completely different parts of the 
filesystem.  I was thinking we could have some environment variable like 
UNBUNDLED to tell everythng that installed bundles have been separated out, and 
then have some rules to find out where (for installation and for lookup at 
runtime).