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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-04-07 01:11:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-04-07 01:11:58 +0200 |
| commit | 357bc0213f1d4049d6ce0c80122987c760c5e506 (patch) | |
| tree | 2577592f83ced149f123da3770452e1a917ef20f /community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn | |
| parent | e4ca7c575ff06479bb634cf64cd9abe36a25e3e8 (diff) | |
| parent | eb8c1c4b7b414b73e81c8be1cbd2e5b616a8c443 (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'savannah/master'
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn index d9f1a9e1..13cc6cd1 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -19,12 +19,12 @@ software packages, GNU/Linux distributions usually come with a package manager, which keeps track of all files upon installation/removal in some kind of central database. -An alternative approach is the one implemented by GNU Stow: each package is +An alternative approach is the one implemented by GNU Stow and GNU Guix: each package is actually installed in a private directory tree. The actual standard directory structure is then created by collecting the individual files from all the packages, and presenting them in the common `/bin`, `/lib`, etc. locations. -While the normal Stow package (for traditional UNIX systems) uses symlinks to +While the normal Stow or Guix package (for traditional UNIX systems) uses symlinks to the actual files, updated on installation/deinstallation events, the Hurd [[hurd/translator]] mechanism allows a much more elegant solution: [[hurd/translator/stowfs]] (which is actually a special mode of |