Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)

[Tonnerre]

Salut,

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 10:05:34AM +0200, Spam wrote:
> Then it is good. Just I see no programs other than Gnome or KDE apps
> that are using them.

Because KDE people  hate Gnome people and vice  versa, and because the
rest of the world just neglects the two races for political reasons.

Maybe   the  Freedesktop  project   should  provide   some  convenient
specification/code to  do it.  Like they  do for HAL  and DBUS (Please
note that this is something  interesting because it does clever things
on hardware without requiring to patch the kernel.)

> > In  case of  marketing it's  up  to the  distributions to  provide
> > something  concise so everyone  can use  their programs  through a
> > coherent namespace. (I.e. port all the apps they ship to gnome-vfs
> > or kio).
> 
> Do you really believe this will happen?

If the distributors  really want to be able to gain  money, and if the
Free Unix community wants to  gain a significant market share, this is
supposed to  happen. It's  the question of  whether we can  ignore our
childish concept  wars, or if we're  always going to stay  at that low
level we're at now.

Actually, this can't be fixed by putting everything into the kernel.

			    Tonnerre

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