From: David Golden (david.golden at domain oceanfree.net)
Date: Mon 01 Oct 2001 - 10:12:21 IST
On Monday 01 October 2001 09:59, John P. Looney wrote:
> You'd honestly find that useful ?
Possibly. Maybe. It'd be interesting to play with anyway, whoo says
it has to be useful?
> It would be 100% possible to use FiST module system to have a virtual
> /apps filesystem, which did all the symlink making for you in
> /usr/local/{bin,lib,share,games} etc.
>
Ah, but I'd rather not see the growrh of a symlink-forest. encap or stow can
do that quite nicely already.
> A bit of work though...and I'm not sure it makes up for a proper
> packaging system.
Umph. The major problem is the dependency-tracking, as usual,
hence the scheme would need a more complex filesystem,
probably with "bidiirectional symlinks" i.e. MacOS/ OS/2
style aliases, which update when the target is moved.
> Anyone know if RedHat will ever beat apt-like features
> into RPM ?
Well, RH maight or might not - but there's a brazilian (? I think)
distro that just rewrote apt to work with .rpms instead of .debs
Mandrake has similar tools - the major difficulty was that
the Mandrake crew had to sit down and reorganize all the RPMs into
more logical divisions, rather than the old historical delineations.
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