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Re: Relocatable packages



On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 04:29:17PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > all installed files should be location independent.
> 
> This is a nice ideal, but quite unattainable at present.  Programs need to

yes :( And I have more unattainable ideals :)


> Every deb is a "location independent" package:
> 
> dpkg -i --instdir=/usr/local/somewhere

but you can't do: dpkg -i --relocate /usr/doc=/usr/share/doc


regards,

Gerhard.



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