> > I would regret this, because I still think that Gentoo in its current form > > is the more "pure" approach. > > My ideal would still be to implement a thing like a unionfs which allows > > clean overriding of system level libraries.
> If you happen to find out how to do this properly, I would be more than > willing to see whether it is possible to simply use an offset to install > in, but not changing the paths within this offset (like a chroot jail), > such that the packages in your union mount look for things in the main > file system (i.e. "/"). Since your previous results have proven to be > interesting, but not fully covering (eg. global union mount), in the > meanwhile we keep on working on the prefix. After googling a little around, the combination of chroot/jail and union mounts seems to be a accepted solution to the global union mount problem. It is used for most of the interesting virtualization / virtual server setups. What's missing is how to access such a jail from a finder started application ;) Regards Dirk -- [email protected] mailing list
