On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:06:09PM -0600, Alex wrote: > I would like to try the "dumb" method of installing each package to a > separate directory... I'm thinking this may not be to bad since a whole > list of directories can be given to /etc/ld.conf and they will be stored > in a hashtable.. At the least, I'm under the impression that most packages > might be flexible enough configure scripts for this... > > On the other hand, I'm considering installing each package to a separate > directory and upon each installation/removal, re-populating a fake set of > standard "/usr" directories with symbolic links to the real files... > > Does anyone here have any experiences with either of these methods? In > doing the first manually, I had some difficulty getting binutils, glibc, > and gcc to work together when each were in separate directories...
Check out www.gobolinux.org -- they started out from LFS and developed a distribution around keeping each package in its own directory. They've developed a lot of nice tools to help with that, including scripts to maintain a tree of symlinks such as you mention. nick matteo -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
