On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:05:40PM +0200, Damir Perisa wrote:
> Thursday 06 September 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> | In addition, what if I wanted to make an installable package for
> | my homedir containing config files - silly, but someone might want
> | that /shrug.
>
> actually... i'm doing this. i have private pkgs with docs and lecture
> materials (presentations, literature lists... that is completed and
> ready for usage), that install
> to /home/share/{docs,lectures,fun,...}/ and are intended to be for
> teaching people and other human activities.
>
> since this docs are mostly not for software but other subjects, i do
> not want to put them in /usr/share or somewhere in the OS but
> in /home. i'm aware that this is using pacman for packages that are
> not OS related, however it works so great that i do not intend to
> stop using it :) ... it is also great for sharing between
> coworkers/colleagues. a package installs always at the right place :)
>
> maybe there is a better way to handle such things, but i came with
> this. comments welcome :)
>
To Damir and Georg :
What is the advantage of using a pacman package over a tarball ?
A pacman package is just a tarball with additional meta informations that are
useless for that particular case in my opinion (but are very useful for
normal applications).
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