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I can't speak for virtme, but supermin won't read new files
that are
added by the administrator. It only looks at files that it knows
(from RPM metadata) are part of RPM-installed packages, and only a
fixed list of Fedora-packaged RPMs are consulted, not random third
party RPMs[*]
[*] Well, except if they replace a core Fedora RPM with a third party
RPM of the same name, but is anyone that crazy?
Apparently such craziness does happen in various enterprise setups. I have no idea
whether users that crazy intersect with users who would benefit from supermin or virtme;
perhaps they do such crazy things exactly because they have their own, different, OS
distribution system.
I don't
regard a project that has been successfully used in production for
half a decade to be a "hack", but you're entitled to your opinion.
I am admittedly a pedant and “relying on assumptions that the system does not promise to
provide” weighs much more to me than “it didn’t broke for the known users” :)
Mirek