Daemon's Advocate article

[David Cuthbert]

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.