John Hasler wrote: > Koh Choon Lin writes: >> It seems to me the cleanest form of manual package management is still >> the old DOS style. All the files of a single program lies in one >> directory > > Each with its own copy of all its dependencies, including libc and all > other libraries it calls and all the programs and daemons it uses such as > dbus and hal. Sure. And then when there is a critical update to libc or > some other widely-used thing you get to upgrade every package on your > system, one at a time, as the maintainers get new packages ready. You > have the fun of downloading each of those dependencies hundreds of times > and finding space for them all. > > Why not give each package its own kernel while you are at it?
I don't think he meant something like chroot env. What he means is build with unique --prefix, what I exactly do for testing purposes. If the test is ok then I package with dpkg-buildpackage or similar. regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]