There's also the fact - if I understand it correctly - that the filesystem in Gobo -is- the "package database"; if it is in the filesystem, it's installed and c

There's also the fact - if I understand it correctly - that the filesystem in Gobo -is- the "package database"; if it is in the filesystem, it's installed and can be looked up easily by the system. Or browsed manually. It's also friendly to manual installs; once you install things manually, it's now a part of the package database! That's the one thing I hate about package managers - if you need to install from source, the manager has no clue about it; in fact, you can have multiple versions installed - a new version "from source" and an old version from a real package via the manager! It's also possible for the manager to uninstall stuff it knows about - along with part of the stuff of the new version, depending on various things. I ran into that earlier when I had to upgrade and munge my Ubuntu system to get TensorFlow to work properly with Python 3 and some other stuff and crap I forget about; long story short, I can no longer perform an upgrade to my system (I'm on 14.04 too!) - the tool b0rks hard when I try, and I honestly don't recall enough to return my system back to working status (I also had to install a major upgrade to gcc - which necessitated upgrades to other things, new manual symlinks, hours of swearing). This was all needed for the Udacity Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree because of their system requirements for code and such (had I been running 16.04, it would have been easier - most likely - but that was also fraught with potential issues, which is why I didn't pursue it). Looking back on things, I probably shoulda used a container or VM, or built a new machine, but I was pressed for time. I was assured in the beginning, before the class started, that what I had would work - like many things in the course, this wasn't true (I'm not saying they lied or misrepresented stuff - my cohort was only the second cohort from November, and so I am a part of the "guinea pig" crowd as they debug the new course - paying beta tester, if you will). A system like Gobo might have been useful for this...