Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Hans Reiser
2004-08-27T02:14:40Z

Jamie Lokier wrote:

>
>Why not just install .tgz or .zip files of entire binary packages, and
>let the filesystem unpack the bits that are needed when they're
>needed. Some platforms (i.e. Java) do this already with .jar files
>and it's quite popular. This would extend it in a versatile way.
>
>
I like this notion of a plugin that would install a package if one of
the package's executables was invoked by its name.