Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > I don't think that source should be viewed as a system-wide resource. I > like the `apt-get source' approach you mention, it just download and unpacks > the source where you are, without side effects. > > I think users should be able to work with sources in any machine they don't > have the root password (e.g: master). So I propose this twist to your idea: > > I define the idea of a "source repository" as a simple dir with some kind > of control meta-data (a file?). Standing in this dir you could install > source packages to it (unpacked as subdirs), and the repository would be > self consistent (with depends). As the depends will have to be fulfilled, > packages can rely on accessing ../<other-package> .
Ooh. I think that's excellent. -- see shy jo
