On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 08:36:25PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> Danek Duvall wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 07:43:41PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> >
> >>Understood.  And I'm happy with that.  Lets put the save files as a
> >>Volatile interface, or even Not-An-Interface, then.  Agree?
> >
> >They sound Project Private to me -- worth documenting, but not necessarily
> >compatible between versions of fakeroot.  Sort of like ZFS streams in that
> >way.
> 
> Okay.  I wasn't sure about the semantics... the contents can be
> project private, but their existence is something higher?

The save files themselves are created on behalf of the user at a user-given
location.  I wouldn't consider their existence or anything about their
location an interface.  The only Public interface involved are the -s and
-i options, which presumably fall under the generic "Uncommitted"
classification that fakeroot itself does.

Danek

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