I'm doing this. I have a list of creators (have to add a few btw) who
* know how to pack a var
* won't pull an amazing amount of dependencies.
* do not depend on non original content
For the others its a manual verification if I'm interested in the creation.
For some blacklisted, I don't even download their creations, they keep on doing the same problematic vars. I don't blame them, they probably have good creations but are bad at packing and their creations end up slowing down my machine.
From time to time I reevaluate the list of nominated lol or new creators.
Rewriting vars is a much more complex task. You need to build a dependency graph and work out this graph. And you need some manual intervention to ask the user in which place is the original content. For example you detect Creator1 bundled Creator2 work. So you rewrite Creator1 work to remove and depend on Creator2 work. Later you realize Creator3 depends on Creator1 bundled work so you broke Creator3.
Not impossible to do but... do you really want to correct this shit because some people just don't care? I extract interesting things from these creators and pack my own stuff. It's rarely the case, in general their content is average or low quality in fact.
Well in my case, I'm quite picky on girls erm looks which are the worse for the matter. Clothes are quite self contained and there's usually no dups.
But for scenes which I like to test, an overlaying system would be cool and relatively easy to do. Maybe even without much coding, just at the filesystem layer.
Download a scene which dowloads its dependency. And then you have a button delete scene and dependencies. Done.
Remember, in the end, VaM doesn't even have a real database for so much content. Even with rewriting to perfect vars, it will still be suboptimal. At the moment, I went from 700GB (or maybe a TB) to 100GB of really good(tm) content and its fast.
It's actually counter productive when you want to design a scene and have so much content. On my side I'd like to have a sorting with toplevel of Clothes, Assets, Scenes, Looks and inside vars. But then the flattening only works on the toplevel directory.
Contrary to some, I wouldn't go back to flat Custom/ etc.. dirs. Was such a mess. It could only be a mess.
I really hope next VaM will adress the problem of sorting and browsing. Also maybe a design that can scale for bigger collections.
