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From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)"  <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:45:06 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons
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> if you want to
> find how the modifications to /386/lib/libc.a, you know where that
> is.  if you bind 100 packages on top of /386/lib, it becomes necessary
> to deconstruct namespaces continually.  the abstraction of namespace
> starts to break down.

Dump deals with 'physical' paths; you have to think of history and
friends in that light. This is why you can't, e.g., 'history /bin/rc'.
This doesn't mean history is broken. Dumps and snapshots are tied directly
to fossil/venti/kenfs et al, and work in that context.