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by locci 5473 days ago
This sounds a lot like what gobolinux is doing [1] with its filesystem/package manager. Did you ever incur in more trouble than it was worth with that approach?

Making the filesystem the actual package database rather than a snapshot of what should be installed is quite tempting.

[1]http://gobolinux.org/index.php?page=at_a_glance