Thanks Brian, and Holger Levsen who similiarly pointed out schroot. I'm sure you are right, and that's what I'll do.
thank you > > >---- Original Message ---- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], >[email protected] >Subject: Re: specific libraries for development (not the recent >custom libc discussion) >Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:03:31 +0000 > >>One way to work around the problem you're having is with a chroot. >This method wil allow you to have a seperate filesystem space in >which to do your development, including installing odd library >versions and so on without risk of breaking your main system. There's >a few packages in Debian which can help automate the process of >creating a chroot area, mounting the various things like /home inside >of it to improve usability, and even programs which automatically >create and use a chroot when building Debian packages from source. >The "dchroot" package is a good starting point.
