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Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day



* Henning Makholm 

| Scripsit Charles Fry <debian@frogcircus.org>
| 
| > > Is there any benefit to using glastree over dirvish or pdumpfs?  
| 
| > The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented
| > in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered
| > it in the first place).
| 
| How would this be relevant to the *user*? Usually I don't care which
| languages the software I use is written in, except perhaps when it
| breaks and I need to hack the source.

Minimize the number of packages installed -- I do care at least.
(Which is one of the reasons why I'm using glastree and not pdumpfs.)

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