Re: Daemon's Advocate article

[Robert Garrett <rg70@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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