Duncan Overbruck

I think we have to come up with a spec/design for alternatives in general to actually start solving this problem.

I think hooks are fine, but I would like to reduce the need for them in the long term. Currently `INSTALL` with "pre" runs before the package is unpackaged, but...

> Pre-install hook run during extract means we also need to reorder transaction to avoid: uninstall gawk - use awk - install nawk. Oh yea I see, there could be...

It would simplifies it so far that we can compute the end result of all alternative chanegs before starting the transaction and feed the changes into `transaction_files.c`. I have a...

This should greatly reduce the time needed, not sure why this example with more files is faster, maybe its just a lot more symlinks or smaller files that would need...

Is there any good reason for why this would be useful?

I don't really see how this is useful or worth a new flag. This would also have some pretty weird implications. As example the list of packages and the order...

This is just one option, for one wayland compositer, not sure if the general documentation is a good place for that.

At least enabling the service is redundant, users should refer to the linked page if they don't know how services are enabled, otherwise we would have a copy of `ln...

> @Duncaen does it mean once the soft link happens the runit will run the service immediately? Yes it will start as soon as the service directory is scanned, which...