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Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Paul Schenkeveld wrote:
>> Having a file describing everything that gets installed would also
>> benefit
>> later upgrades to a system.
>
> One of my questions: Does my proposed format suffice for these
> other purposes? If not, what other features would be required?
> Is it worth trying to design a single format that handles these
> various cases?
Being able to record a series of incremental changes in a filesystem
hierarchy, and then roll them back as required. That would be
exceedingly useful, and I think your 'ntree' format has virtually
everything necessary to do that. The most obvious missing bit I can
see is creating a backup of a file before overwriting it with
different content.
Cheers,
Matthew
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