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["Dale E. Edmons" <demaillists AT comcast.net>]

Thomas Orgis wrote:
> Am Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:03:54 -0700
> schrieb "Dale E. Edmons" <demaillists AT comcast.net>: 
>
>   
> > I'd also be interested to know how many people are already using
> > castfs.  I presume we intend to make this the default in the future?
> >     
>
> I want castfs. I don't have it on all my installs, but I have used it already.
> I think that such encapsulation for any package's "make install" is 
> absolutely mandatory.
> I really want it to be the default and to work with all spells.
>   
Yeah I like the idea behind castfs.  It has quite a good design appeal. 
 I'm still getting up on the code and some of the "intents" behind the 
design, but mostly it seems straight-forward.
> Also, with castfs, my long-term project of getting proper account support also
for casting into (to-be) chroots will be piece of cake;-)
> So, please, please work on it. I'm most thankful.
>
>   
I've already got one simple bugfix.  But really, the biggest part will be to
come up with a design document that'll decide what the expected behavior(s)
should be.