...
I agreed that it makes sense to move Unmanaged handling to
SyminkProgram. SymlinkProgram can be though as a 'EnableProgram'
script, and one step required when enabling a program is
copying is
Unamanaged content. I'm not sure about Disable/RemoveProgram
removing
the Unamanaged files from the system. It's probably ok, since
it is
more or less what regular distros do to ALL their files :)
Is it a simple "cp -r"? Maybe UpdateSettings could be repurposed.
I'd vote for hardlinks! So the Unmanaged files doesn't take up
twice the
diskspace.
Please, no. I'm all in favor of avoiding duplicate files, but hard
links
can't work across different filesystems, and my installation is
spread
out across multiple hard drives (primarily because I'm too cheap
to buy
larger drives). Could it move the files out of Unmanaged, then
symlink
them back?
I think in most cases /System/Links will be on the same fs as /
Programs.
The script could detect if it's on the same fs and use hardlinks then,
otherwise it would do copy...
That works. Actually, you make a really good point about /S/L and /
Programs. Since /S/L only takes up about 5MB, it'd be silly to have
it on a separate partition. I retract my previous statement in shame,
and submit that it may actually be better to just use hardlinks and
require that /S/L and /Programs be on the same partition, since it
reduces the number of special cases necessary in the scripts.
Well, I'm an idiot. I think my brain may have been damaged by
spending too much time away from Gobo :)
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