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Re:What to do about NFS and SIGBUS by js2 on Monday March 19, 2018 @09:20AM (#16618112)
There was actually a tool for managing such symlink trees, “depot” from CMU:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~help/unix_linux/software_collections...

Re:What to do about NFS and SIGBUS by predakanga on Monday March 19, 2018 @10:57AM (#16618804)
Interesting - I wonder if that inspired GNU Stow (similar tool I often see used for managing dotfiles)
Re:What to do about NFS and SIGBUS by js2 on Monday March 19, 2018 @11:22AM (#16619042)
The CMU depot was presented at LISA '93:

http://static.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/li...

Stow apparently started development in 1996 and was initially named depot:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/stow.git/tree/doc/ChangeLog...

So probably?