On Oct 14 2003, at 11:21, Liberty Young was caught saying:
> One way to maintain that your distro doesn't become some hodgepodge of a
> beast is to not just do ./compile; make; make install. Instead, roll
> your own .deb or .rpm packages. True, this isn't for everybody, and I
> don't do this with my own desktop machine. Though if i was to mess with
> libraries and needed the latest, I would. I have only seen a few rare
> Makefiles that include an uninstall directive. 

Are you volunteering to do a package building presentation for 
plug-devel? ;)

But one of the problems with installing libraries, even if you build
your own packages, soon as you upgrade an existing library you may 
be breaking dependencies across the whole system. It would be interesting 
to have multiple library directories and have wrapper scripts around apps 
that need newer libraries to point the dynamic linker to specific directories 
so that you can have distro packages and homebrew stuff co-existing.

~Deepak

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Deepak Saxena - dsaxena@plexity.net

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 packaging, and systems - from the very beggining on the understanding 
 that waste does not exist" - William McDonough & Michael Braungart,
                 From Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things