Re: A GNU Distribution

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   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.