Re: Relocatability of packages

[Tim Moore <tmoore tembel org>]

The Doctor What wrote:
> This would be the best solution, but I'd rather see if it's possible to
> modify the linux program loader to understand that if the program trying
> to be run ends in <file>.app and is a directory, then it should run the file
> <file>.i386 or whatever the architecture is under that <file>.app
> directory.

Well I just want to comment on this. This isn't really an option at all.

1) It won't work cross platform.

2) It would never get into the main kernel source, and requiring users
to patch their kernels is probably the *least* usable thing we could do.

Tim