DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2004-03
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Re: Daemon's Advocate article
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:28:38AM -0800 I heard the voice of
Matthew Dillon, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> 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.
Egads! Matt, put down the painkillers!! 8-)
I can just see it now... right next to 'page faults', we've got
'package faults'. We could even have a package pager, to
automatically do LRU analysis on packages, and delete them when we get
tight on space (of course, weighing in the speed of the network
connection).
--
Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
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