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Re: Daemon's Advocate article


From: Robert Garrett <rg70@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:33:32 -0600

David Cuthbert wrote:
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.


Interesting experiment, but I think too much would break in reality.

There are a lot of autoconf scripts that, for example, check permissions and usability of include files and libraries as well as xxxx-config shell scripts. Quite often, I don't *want* some of these obscure/broken libraries linked in.

The only way I can think of for this to be practical would be to install
precompiled trusted packages. I can't ascertain that a port will in fact build.


Robert Garrett



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