Re: software packaging and ReiserFS v4

["Jürgen Botz" <jurgen@botz.org>]

Bennett Todd wrote:
>>>(although the forward mappings within /var/lib/pkg/foo wouldn't
>>>update automagically).
>>
>>They could, with the right plug-in.
> 
> A plug-in to reach in and edit the forward references in the package
> database misses my vision of "simple";

*sigh*

You do not seem to grasp the power of your own idea.  There is no
need for a separate "package database" with your scheme.  What is
the package database but the contents of your 'pkg' directory?
Your links (/usr/bin/program/pkg -> /pkg/program/...) provide the
inversion.  You only need a plug-in to make this "symbolic link"
something that gets atomically changed at both ends.  This is
nothing special... it is no more special than a regular symbolic
link, whose semantics are also provided by a plug-in in reiser4.

I can only paraphrase Hans: The filesystem *is* the database.

:j

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