Re: Build-Depends

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:09:06AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> >  I think the idea was to have a
> > variant of fakeroot to trace open's and exec's instead of the other
> > things it traces; there were all sorts of conflicts when fakeroot used
> > to try to do everything.
> 
> That was libtricks, which was never stable enough and removed again
> at some point..

joost once told me that he believed that putting a wrapper around just
the open and exec* calls should be safe; it was just that all of the
functionality of libtricks together made it too much and caused
breakages.

   Julian

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