[haiku-development] Re: software organization/installation
- From: Truls Becken <truls.becken@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:48:19 +0100
Jonas' suggestion is interesting, even though it is by no means new.
In any lengthy discussion about software installation, someone will
suggest union mounted disk images.
I am wondering what the implications are concerning system overhead;
extracting the images to memory on startup, having dozens of mounts,
handling path conflicts between packages. Possibly an even larger
challenge is dealing with file system queries; files from the disk
images must appear in the BFS attribute indexes - how is this going to
work?
Regardless of the chosen package format and handling, it's important
that any package should be installable both system wide and in a
user's home directory. This means that file paths must be relative and
work equally well in /boot/common and /boot/home/Joe/config.
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