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Re: Daemon's Advocate article


From: "Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:46:31 -0500

Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     Hey, here's an idea... using the VFS wrapper idea our
>     'ports' system could create a namespace that makes everything
>     appear to be preinstalled.  So instead of CDing somewhere and
>     typing make, or running an apt-get type of utility, you would
>     simply run the program you want to run and our package manager
>     would download and install it on the fly.

Hopefully it would prompt to make sure you wanted to do this, especially if
(for instance) I typed "startkde" on my server.  :)



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