> > Can someone please give me a concise explanation of what the > > intended goals are here? > > The goal is to make package installation and removal as easy as > cp and rm.
Some pre/post installation stuff seems needed. We should try and minimise all pre/post installation stuff. I have yet to see a case where it is infact _required_, and cannot be done in a different, cleaner way. $ tar -zxvf my_program.tar.gz $ cd my_program/ $ ./configure --prefix=/packages/my_program $ make $ make install Actually, it would be more in tune with: ./configure --prefix= && make install DESTDIR=/packages/foo && ln -s /packages/foo /stow. But that is the general gist of it all. In this case I'd have a source-based package manager already available. http://www.gnu.org/software/sourceinstall/sourceinstall.html We should hopefully be able to use that for purley source code based things. But most users simply wish to use binary packages (which is quite understandable). Cheers. _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
