Objectroot: a new filesystem hierarchy for Unix-like systems
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Re: Objectroot: a new filesystem hierarchy for Unix-like systems
#2It's unfortunate for the people designing / promoting this, not to mention NixOS as previous work.
Re: Objectroot: a new filesystem hierarchy for Unix-like systems
#3This is an interesting direction, but highly underspecified.
There are many edge cases not addressed (eg. creating a user named "common" would probably be bad), and inconsistencies (eg. software from the PSF going under /org/python/, which is probably also where would you expect PyPy to be found, even though it is a different organization).
Re: Objectroot: a new filesystem hierarchy for Unix-like systems
#4What does this reformulation have to offer over Plan 9's union mounts, which let me create arbitrary hierarchies to my own specifications instead of following someone's arbitrary "standard"?