Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept

[Willem Jan Withagen]

On 23-2-2014 3:45, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> 
> On Feb 22, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw at digiware.nl>
> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, please can we get these ....
>> 
>> Apollo Domain systems had those, and they were great. Set SYSTYPE
>> to BSD4 and get the BSD tree and all that came with it, or SYSV to
>> get the other stuff.
> 
> Yep, I loved these things on Domain/OS!   We system admin types used
> them to do all kinds of clever (and useful) things.
> 
> Looks like FreeBSD has actually *had* an implementation for 6 years
> now.  I don’t necessarily agree with the architectural decision to
> create a different namespace and command (varsym) to manipulate it -
> it was really nice just having it be a part of the standard
> environ(7) - but hey, any implementation is better than no
> implementation.  Whatever happened to
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/200808DevSummit?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=variant-symlinks-for-freebsd.pdf

This one came in after your previous one, which I answered extensively.

But I see your point in just using ENV, makes life much more consistent.
And then again:
	Any version is better than no version.
Could do integration in due time.

--WjW