Unionfs etc Re: Packaging

[Rahul Siddharthan]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> We are talking about the same situation here. OpenBSD has recently adjusted
> its package tools to automatically remove shared directories once they are
> empty. That's makes most @dirrm superfluous. The situation is not that
> atypical for extensive systems like GNOME, Python or TeX. It is often not
> a hard requirement but a useful hint for the administrator "drop your files
> here".

Interesting... well, this is not an immediate problem, I'll bring it up 
again for discussion once I have something already working (currently I'm
playing with unionfs and thinking about Matt's suggestion of having it
detect recursions and therefore allow mount of subdirectories, which would
be immensely helpful, but I've done no kernel hacking before beyond small
single-line tweaks)

R