Hi,
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> Actually, I like /usr/local/packages for the .tgz files. But really
> (as I said in another message to this group), Yast ought to be capable
> of managing this kind of thing in a systematic way. Otherwise package
> management becomes incoherent and uncoordinated, with Yast doing half
> the job and knowing nothing about the other half.
YaST's capability of unpacking .tgz-Archives is a leftover from ancient
times, when Software Packages where gzipped tar Archives (like Slackware
has). These Packages contained the whole directory structure and binaries
as well as pre- and postinstall scripts. It was never intended to be used
for _source_-Packages. This would be a hard job, since every source
package requires different rules on how to make a binary of it and has
a different directory structure...
You might want to have a look at "Pack": http://www.linuxos.org/Pack.html
Bye,
LenZ
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