On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:44:13AM -0500, Adam Lazur wrote: > Dwayne C . Litzenberger (dlitz@dlitz.net) said: > > So my question is: What do you wish for in a package manager? > > Relocatable packages so a user can do an individual package install into ~ > without being r00t (this may be possible now with some dpkg foo?). > > The ability to install more than one version of a package simultaneously. Hmm. That could bring about some problems. It would require a large re-structuring of the filesystem hierarchy. Why would you need this; how important is this to you? > > Some intelligence for handling multiple machines. Like the ability to nfs > mount /usr and have the package manager understand what's going on. What do you mean? As it stands, I can mount /usr and /var over NFS and things will work fine. > > Oh, and a postinstall that'll do not only a diff on conf files that have > changed, but allow for a merge as well... Sounds like fun. I suppose it could be made to work to some extent. > > .adam > Thanks for the feedback! -- Dwayne C. Litzenberger - dlitz@dlitz.net - Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. - See the mail headers for GPG/advertising/homepage information.
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