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I love the idea EXCEPT for Desktop Enviroments. Does that mean any KDE/Gnome App has the whole desktop installed in each folder? What about OpenSSH does that m

• digi_owl 11y ago
  The scheme that Canonical seems to be playing with is that larger projects (DEs, central libs) are put into what they call frameworks. These are packages that other packages can refer to rather than massively duplicating the content within themselves. These frameworks will in turn be versioned, so that if package X wants framework Z, while Y wants Z+1 they can both be happy without descending into dependency hell. Note that Gobolinux gets around this to a degree by using age old soname and symlinks. This in that ld and similar is pointed at a directory containing symlinks. libxyz.so.1 will be pointing to whatever is the active version of libxyz, while something like libxyz.so.1.1 will be pointing to that specific lib version. Disabling a specific lib version is done by removing the relevant symlinks. Gobolinux provides tools for doing this, but they are basically shell scripts. And so in a pinch someone can do all that manually.