On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Is it possible to pool in some ideas to develop a methodology of
> making "portable" application, its requirements, packaging,
> development framework and the such?

When you build from source, a well designed 'make install' will put
everything under the
/usr/local/ dir. structure.

A similar philosophy could be adopted for your scenario.

The problem is with the other OSs or rather convincing their powers to
be, to put in place, a similar structure.

> I will pool in whatever ideas I have tried and implemented
> successfully and unsuccessfully in the past.
>
> Most of the installation nowadays spray files all over the place and
> sometimes "pollute" the installed base.

Are you referring to all OSs in general or a specific OS?

-- Arun Khan
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