First of all, please accept my apologies if what I'm about to write seems rather incoherent or is just plain impractical - I'm not a linux guru (candidate for 'Understatement of the Year' there :-) ) and don't really know what I'm talking about :-)
Anyway... I've been thinking about package management and, having read the hints, I feel that a combination of package users and fakeroot fits my needs the best. However, there seem to be a few problems with fakeroot and packages hardcoding directories into the compiled programs so... Is it possible/feasible/(desirable?) to install the tools needed to compile and install a package into a directory other than the norm (say /fr/<whatever> for 'fakeroot') and then create links in the appropriate places to the installed files (so that the system doesn't start complaining when they aren't where it expects them to be). You could then chroot into the /fr folder to compile/install the package as normal and then copy the files you want over into the 'real' system after verifying that the install has gone OK and not done anything nasty to the system. Does that even make sense? David Shaw -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
