Manoj, plain and simple, relocation is a hack used for non-native systems. Most of the issues I am talking about are for native Debian systems that do not all follow the same dir format. The build cases for third-party is a plus. See, my solution works in all cases. Relocation does not help 32/64 ports, it does not solve recompiles on things like Solaris, *BSD and such. Relocation is only useful for installing Debian packages on non-Debian systems (like RedHat), for installing path conflicting packages (two MTA's?) which we don't really want to support, and for people with space problems where they don't have anything left in /, so they mount a 1 giger on /usr/local and put everything there.
Relocation is not a real solution to the full set of problems. It is a workaround for other issues (and a really poor one, IMO). Now that I got that out of my system we can move on. I think our discussion on IRC layed out the groundwork and hopefully resolved our discrepancies. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
