Philipp T�lke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Tapio Kelloniemi wrote: >> There are many package managers which use symbolic links to track >> which files belong to which package. I have thought of a similar >> approach but with hard links instead. >> [...] >> ; and what other problems might exist? > >There is the problem, that you can't have /usr/src on a different >partition - which is sometimes wanted. You would have to split it into >/src /usr/src /opt/src a.s.o, and if a package wants to put files in >/usr _and_ /etc you can't hardlink every file...
Symlink approach has also this problem, though it is a bit easier to solve this in that scheme. However, using multiple package directories for a single package will work (actually better than symlink scheme's solutions). The problem is that this needs probably some help from user. -- Tapio -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
