Re: [RFC] Package build time config for installation directories.

[Nils Lohner <lohner@ecf.teradyne.com>]

Ben- 
  There's only one thing that I would like to see, and that's to facilitate 
compiling and installing native packages on other systems.

I currently work on solaris and since I use a lot of GNU tools I currently 
download all packages that can handle
./configure --prefix=/sup;make;make install 
and they'll just work.

So I guess the system needs to support functionality that I can use
the .orig.tgz files (no debianization) because then I can just apt-get
source and build and have it work, meaning I can automize a dir with non-
standard stuff on solaris.  This would also make the system completely 
non-debian dependent (i.e. people can use it on hp-ux for maintaining a GNU 
tools tree in /opt by downloading, compiling and installing sources for 
example) and allow for a lot of flexibility.

Nils.