On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:26:56PM +0100, Nils Lohner wrote: > > Ben- > There's only one thing that I would like to see, and that's to facilitate > compiling and installing native packages on other systems. > > I currently work on solaris and since I use a lot of GNU tools I currently > download all packages that can handle > ./configure --prefix=/sup;make;make install > and they'll just work. > > So I guess the system needs to support functionality that I can use > the .orig.tgz files (no debianization) because then I can just apt-get > source and build and have it work, meaning I can automize a dir with non- > standard stuff on solaris. This would also make the system completely > non-debian dependent (i.e. people can use it on hp-ux for maintaining a GNU > tools tree in /opt by downloading, compiling and installing sources for > example) and allow for a lot of flexibility.
But if you have apt available, why not use the debianization? :) -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
