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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:33:03 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons
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> ok, what about libraries, are you going to add a new place for included
> files or have a script that sets the namespace for every library a
> program you want to compile needs?
>
> think about python for instances, it's needs zlib, bzip2, openssl and
> it couldn't depend even on more stuff (like libxml, sqlite, curses,
> etc), but I tried
> to keep it simple, but usable and then you also have the configuration
> files, binds are find, but you need a big amount of them to get something
> going....
>
> in the end you have to think in the actual usage.
>
> I chose to "pollute" /sys/src/cmd with non standard packages for all of
> the above reasons and some that don't come to my mind right now.

+1.  anyone who suggests a recursive union directory
as a solution needs a "talk", and a good read of
http://lwn.net/Articles/325369/
warning.  the author doesn't completely understand qids. nor
the implications of unions on the uniqueness of
qid.path.

- erik