Raphael Marmier wrote:
> Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
>
>> Long story short: the perfect system doesn't yet exist. OSX .app
>> approach comes close but is totally different paradigm and not really
>> what a BSD should be after.
>
> While strictly copying MacOSX is not an option, our dream package
> management system should allow us to install an application and all
> its dependencies in its own directory, possibly with its own config
> space. This would be called "standalone" application, maybe.
>
> something like:
>
> /usr/standalone/apache-2/bin ./etc ./lib ...
>
>
The one thing I dont like about this: if a critical, widely used library
has a bug, you can't just update the one that lives in /usr/local/lib.
Aside of that, self contained apps would be really useful.
