On 05/20/2013 10:37 PM, Jessica Hamilton wrote:
On 21 May 2013 08:28, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx <mailto:ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>> wrote: Don't you already have a virtual filesystem layer approach? If the package has a link in a virtual deskbar folder for the app, then there's really nothing special at all to do. It'd be the equivalent of extracting a zip file to /boot. Of course, I'm assuming a user can delete a file that comes from a package...
That isn't possible, since packagefs is read-only. There is no merging going on between entries provided by packages and editable ones. The only thing somewhat related is that in /boot/common and ~/config several directories (e.g. settings) are redirected to the underlying BFS directory. Their contents isn't merged with anything packagefs provides, though.
CU, Ingo
