Richard Stallman asked: > Can we rig up a virtual directory /bin that would appear to contain > the files it ought to contain?
Alfred Szmidt said: > Should be possible I suppose, same for /share, /lib, etc. Referencing the talk from the GNU Hackers Meeting (and slides) it seems that it shouldn't be necessary to do that though, since Nix manages this? And if you did build a symlink of stuff in /bin which Foo, should get the /bin/foo symlink? With Nix there it seems that there could be potentially 20 or more installed copies, possibly they're different versions or the same version with different configurations, or whatever other combination you can think of. By using a virtual file system (and not real symlinks) that is mounted over /bin, etc, you don't get this problem. Each mount point would correspond to what the user is viewing.
