Kinda hijacking the conversation, but I discovered a great FUSE filesystem to distribute software over the network. It allows to have HUGE amount of software a

Kinda hijacking the conversation, but I discovered a great FUSE filesystem to distribute software over the network. It allows to have HUGE amount of software available with the trade-off that the files you are asking for are not in cache, it is slow to retrieve them (need to retrieve each one of HTTP.) Would people be interested in such filesystem distributed in the wild? The /bin directory would be put at the end of your $PATH, as a fallback, you got the local version, great use the fast one from your SSD, you don't have that particular software, good, wait a tiny bit and get it over the network if you didn't store it in cache before. I would find it useful for development tools like compilers or interpreters, that it is always quite a mess to install locally.