gobolinux

Edit: thinking about it, Gobolinux could perhaps be extended with checksum dirs inside the version-subdir to separate different compiles.

Edit: note that Gobolinux came to be without demanding that everything in the Linux ecosystem danced to their pipe.

It blows my mind that the author of htop and gobolinux and luarocks are the same person.

BTW, there exist a pair of programs/scripts in Gobolinux that provide the possibility of putting program dirs in arbitrary places.

BTW the first few releases of Gobolinux used a different distro as a base, and overlaid the Gobo tree on top.

Or that it's unique directory layout and symlink farm is what makes GoboLinux awesome?

On Gobolinux each version of a program or lib is given its own versioned subdir in /Programs, but that's as far as it goes.

If you don't want to be standardized maintain it yourself, see: GoboLinux.

Then again, Gobolinux has never been meant as a server distro...

Here is the kicker, Gobolinux is built using mostly shell script.

However, one can see GoboLinux and NixOS for alternative takes.

GoboLinux has something completely different from the FHS.

In fact, the original documentation of Homebrew described this approach as "The GoboLinux Way".

Gobolinux started out as a tool for managing user compiled code inside said users home directory.

You have something similar on Gobolinux, where /System/Links (/System/Index on 015) holds symlinks to whatever is housed in the /Programs directories.

There is also Gobolinux, that do so in a less stringent fashion.