"The drawback is that you have to manually set files suid root (but on the other hand, it gives you more control over packages - you decide what should be suid) and that some packages need some tweaking, as their install process behaves badly."
And this is what you recommend to newbies? "The Book excludes any recommendations about which pack'man' to use, which doesn't make it easy for newbies" It is the most complicate from the others. Nadav On 1/18/07, bojster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benedikt Schmitt wrote: > > > Which strategy do you recommend/what are the pro/cons of this choice? > > I recommend user-based package management - it keeps things tidy, > in separate directories, easy to upgrade (for each user, the commands > used to build/install it are stored in the user's .bash_history), easy > to tell which file is whose (owner = pakage), and prevents packages > overwriting each other's files. > The drawback is that you have to manually set files suid root (but on > the other hand, it gives you more control over packages - you decide > what should be suid) and that some packages need some tweaking, as > their install process behaves badly. > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/more_control_and_pkg_man.txt > > For easy package content listing and removal I also use paco. > http://paco.sourceforge.net/ > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
