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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:14:40 -0700
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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.