Daemon's Advocate article

[Justin C. Sherrill]

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.  So instead of CDing somewhere and
>     typing make, or running an apt-get type of utility, you would
>     simply run the program you want to run and our package manager
>     would download and install it on the fly.

Hopefully it would prompt to make sure you wanted to do this, especially if
(for instance) I typed "startkde" on my server.  :)