Am 21.12.2011 um 21:58 schrieb Marc Coevoet: > On my quest to use open source, I thought about a chroot environment. > Would it be possible to install it under Mac os x? It might solve > problems for people that would no longer mix mac os x .h and linux .h files? > http://ss64.com/bash/chroot.html
I don't think this a "good idea®". Thousands of include files use some MB of disk space. In the year 2011 disk space isn't worth losing some thoughts on it. I prefer to keep all Linux, Solaris, and *BSD stuff in the virtual disk images and my host system clean. (These *BIG* files can reside on external TB sized disk drives.) What I shall mix (and share among the many OS instances) is the TeX Live distribution. 2-3 GB, the effort of upgrading, setup of MAP files – that's neither recommended to have and service a few times nor is it necessary, since TeX Live puts the binaries into distinct directories. What's worth to think about is whether you'd want to have a local source files archives repository for all installed OS and let Fink use it amicably as its "additional directory". /sw/src can by mistake become a bit depleted when you invoke 'fink cleanup' without forbidding Fink to work on source file archives as well. At least nothing is lost, I think, the old stuff is just moved to /sw/src/old... OTOH, this setup would need some mechanism to move newly arrived items in /sw/src to the shared systems-wide repository after some time. BTW, chroot is good when you want to work in multiple instances of the *same* OS. It can't be used in a mix of many OS since each of them has its own file system(s). By chance it can happen that the OS and their FS share this or that volume or branch of the host system's file system (/Users <-> /home, /usr/local <-> /usr/local). -- Greetings Pete When Richard Stallman goes to the loo, he core dumps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
