Re: [Nix-dev] Thoughts: What about using aufs instead of symlinks + env vars?

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Raskin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Weber wrote: > Thanks, I got you now. So at least before union mounting all those store > paths there should be a test checking for conflicts and a big fat > warning. This is where the problem lies. I know that if I have managed to make some pack

Re: [Nix-dev] Thoughts: What about using aufs instead of symlinks + env vars?

2009-06-30 Thread Marc Weber
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 01:45:49AM +0400, Michael Raskin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Marc Weber wrote: > > By using aufs you can be pretty sure that everything works as well if > > you're using aufs again in your profile, correct? > > No. Maybe executable name wer

Re: [Nix-dev] Thoughts: What about using aufs instead of symlinks + env vars?

2009-06-29 Thread Michael Raskin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Weber wrote: > By using aufs you can be pretty sure that everything works as well if > you're using aufs again in your profile, correct? No. Maybe executable name were different but library set has non-trivial file name conflict.. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Nix-dev] Thoughts: What about using aufs instead of symlinks + env vars?

2009-06-29 Thread Marc Weber
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:15:58PM +0400, Michael Raskin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Marc Weber wrote: > > _In depths description of the pygtk issue_: > > The lib is imported by python in two phases: > > import pygtk; pygtk.require 'version X' > > The last command

Re: [Nix-dev] Thoughts: What about using aufs instead of symlinks + env vars?

2009-06-29 Thread Michael Raskin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Weber wrote: > _In depths description of the pygtk issue_: > The lib is imported by python in two phases: > import pygtk; pygtk.require 'version X' > The last command adds libPath/verisonX to its installation directiory. > The problem is that pyg

[Nix-dev] Thoughts: What about using aufs instead of symlinks + env vars?

2009-06-29 Thread Marc Weber
summary: * If this worked before I would have saved several days of work overall * unkown wether this will work on Windows / Mac (?) olegfink asked on irc today why we use symlinks instead of bind mounts or plan9ish mounts (I don't know what they are yet) Eg aufs can be used to create a virtu