Re: Package management idea

Probably bad form to reply to my own post, but, hey...

Actually, while I think this idea has merit, there is a flaw which can 
be summed up in one word.

Dependencies.

I'll go away and think a little more about it.

David Shaw



On 24/07/11 15:39, David Shaw wrote:
> First of all, please accept my apologies if what I'm about to write
> seems rather incoherent or is just plain impractical - I'm not a linux
> guru (candidate for 'Understatement of the Year' there :-) ) and don't
> really know what I'm talking about :-)
>
> Anyway...
>
> I've been thinking about package management and, having read the hints,
> I feel that a combination of package users and fakeroot fits my needs
> the best.  However, there seem to be a few problems with fakeroot and
> packages hardcoding directories into the compiled programs so...
>
> Is it possible/feasible/(desirable?) to install the tools needed to
> compile and install a package into a directory other than the norm (say
> /fr/<whatever>  for 'fakeroot') and then create links in the appropriate
> places to the installed files (so that the system doesn't start
> complaining when they aren't where it expects them to be).  You could
> then chroot into the /fr folder to compile/install the package as normal
> and then copy the files you want over into the 'real' system after
> verifying that the install has gone OK and not done anything nasty to
> the system.
>
> Does that even make sense?
>
> David Shaw

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