Re: rolling your own package management

Hello Laura,

My first LFS system used *no* package management, next I tried using the 
"stow" approach, later I tried reading up on how debian does things, but 
ultimately I found something that fit me better. From this I project 
that some people will have to build a couple of systems before they have 
something they like and fits them.

If you're feeling like slackware style fits closest to you, I encourage 
you to try something which you might find as nice as I do: I have been 
using a slightly modified version of the "Package Users" system for a 
number of years now. Original link:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/more_control_and_pkg_man.txt

I find this fits nicely into a world of helping me understand my system 
as well as making me think about situations where one package wants to 
over-write the files of another package or set up special privileges 
(like run as root) for files.

To make life better for myself, I added an "ldconfig" user to Matthias 
Beckmann's original plan, and my friend (who goes by Random) did a nice 
job of pulling both of our mods into a gentle fork, which is mirrored here:

https://github.com/ericherman/package-users

I have come to really appreciate this approach, but I know that other 
approaches (like actually building .deb/.rpm or variations on the 
"forest of symlinks" approach) are more in-keeping with traditional 
distros, and that makes an LFS system a little less alien, but from your 
comments I suspect you're willing to be a bit alien.

Still, I love the package-users approach on my own boxes.

Cheers!
-Eric


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