Re: Accessing software programs from disk

[David Brodbeck]

On Sep 12, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
 It does not look
 to me that control is what you are looking for, or the old way to do
 things -- which still exist in Debian.  You just want the  
sackcloth and
 ashes, and the hair shirt.

In which case there are other distributions that cater very well to  
that.  I suggest looking at Gentoo. ;)