Re: Bootup and package managment (and a small status report)

[Alfred M\. Szmidt]

   Can't you do the following (using /hurd as an example): Without
   unionfs running on /hurd (which is a directory), you do `ln -s
   /stow/hurd/hurd/unionfs /hurd/', so /hurd/unionfs is available
   without unionfs running on /hurd.  Once unionfs is running on
   /hurd, its old (i.e. the content of the directory `/hurd/') isn't
   visible anymore.

Yes, but this will break horribly if the user for whatever reason
considers /stow/hurd a ugly name and changes it to something like
/stow/hurd-foo-bar.

   > One could also store ld.so.1, unionfs, and all other core bits in
   > /init (or similar), and just use those filenames.

   You'd also have to frob unionfs's executable then, since it most
   probably depends on libc.so.0.3, etc., but doesn't have a RPATH for
   /init/lib/.

Compile unionfs as a static executable.