On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Tim Cutts wrote:
On 1 Feb 2007, at 1:30 pm, Steffen Moeller wrote:There is probably no point for Debian to compete in the package versions withupstream developers of BioPerl, Wise, EMBOSS and whatever other tools yours and your neighbouring institutes' are providing :o)What I'd actually like is some sort of non-root packaging system so that users could build software with decent dependency checking for their shared software infrastructure. Can dpkg be cajoled into doing that?
About a year ago I was playing with getting emerge to do this. I had gotten to the point where I could emerge most of system and a few other things as a normal user on a debian system and have it install stuff in ~/gentoo/. Most of the changes made it into the portage-prefix branch, but last I checked it was still needing a lot of work.
Ivan