[Yum] Enhancing the potential of yum to support commercial enterprise...

[Bill Rugolsky Jr.]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:33:59AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> Keep in mind - juggling dependencies for a single system and single
> database is hard enough. Doing it for 2 gets dramatically harder and
> relocatable binaries are difficult to make on their best day.
 
On a related topic, has anyone found a compelling paradigm for splitting
an install between a local filesystem and remote (NFS) server(s)?

Someday we will have union-mount & unionfs (*) and the relocate v.
symlink-farm headache can go away.  But the multiple-database /
dependency-mgmt hell remains.

Regards,

	Bill Rugolsky

(*) Erez Zadok promised FiST fan-out support by October,
    but no word from Al Viro on his implementation.