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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: software packaging and ReiserFS v4
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:52:46 +0400
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To: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
Cc: Grant Miner <mine0057@mrs.umn.edu>, Bennett Todd <bet@rahul.net>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

Nikita Danilov wrote:

>Grant Miner writes:
> > If you are making a packaging system, I recommend you do not allow 
> > scipts, since they open up a whole can of worms.  (They're impossible to 
> > invert, introduce security problems, make additional work for GUI 
> > package managers, and cause too many problems.)
>
>You one has support for the user-level transactions in the underlying
>storage (_all_ storage),
>
We don't yet support isolation, (but someday maybe we will have funding 
for it....)

> then scripts will at least be
>"invertible". More or less so, of course, sending packages to the
>network is hard to reverse.
>
> > 
>
>Nikita.
>
>
>  
>


-- 
Hans