Re: Proposal and call for participation, Linux Standard Base Project
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 07:56:23AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > I don't know about "ANY" package system, but dpkg, as currently
> > designed, is more than a little inconvenient if you're building a lot of
> > your programs from source.
Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> wrote:
> Can you ellaborate on that, please?
The problems include:
(*) There's no efficient tool for taking a "make install" and
registering the results in the package database. [For a quick hack,
something based on strace -f would seem like a good idea.]
(*) Sometimes, sources need a different version of libraries than what
we provide, but riping out some libraries and replacing them with
something else is bad.
(*) sometimes packages get taken off hold in dselect.
(*) it's very difficult to check if a large scale package installation
is going to step on an area you're concerned with.
(*) the book on how to administrate a debian system has not been
written.
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Raul
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