Re: Relocatable packages
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Otto Wyss wrote:
> > > but you can't do: dpkg -i --relocate /usr/doc=/usr/share/doc
> >
> > This is just a small matter of programming. Even if it were implemented,
> > though, it would not give you any real flexibility unless installed programs
> > were able to dynamically adapt to being relocated. So I don't think that it
> > would be worthwhile to implement at this time.
> >
> Is this really true? I thought any program is usually relocatable
> written. I myself have never written any location dependend.
Source-wise this might be correct. But after it has been compiled the
situation is pretty fixed. Just consider libtool's *.la files we were
talking about recently.
Regards
-richy.
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Richard B. Kreckel
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