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Re: unionfs: stowing feature


From: olafBuddenhagen
Subject: Re: unionfs: stowing feature
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:37:23 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05)

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:07:18AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:42:41PM +0200, Gianluca Guida wrote:

> > I do agree that it's counter-intuitive. Please note that the stow
> > functionality was mostly meant for the GNU system as a base for a --
> > rather complex I'd say -- packaging system.
> > 
> > The idea was that the first level after the stow directory was the
> > package, and we were matching against package's subdirectories. At
> > the time, I was actually in favor of a separate stowfs which were
> > just using common code for unionfs, but politics and other rather
> > meaningless reasons brought it into the way it is now.
> 
> I see...  It has never occurred to me that unionfs could be used in a
> packaging system :-)
>  
> I wonder whether there is still the necessity to keep things as they
> are.  I can see that the files in which you are mentioned as the
> author date back to 2005, so requirements might have changed in the
> meantime.

The requirements haven't changed. In fact, there is no movement on this
front at all ;-)

But you have a point there: just matching everything below the top level
directory (so you'd have to pass "*/bin" instead of "bin" for the
original use case), would be both more intuitive *and* more generic...

-antrik-




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