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.