[ILUG] Linux Package Management

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an 29u la de mi 9, scriobh David Golden :

 > I'd like to see something like *Step or the old Amiga way of installation -
 > "the directory is the app", rather than munging all the packages together
 > in the one subtree in the normal unix/windows fashion,  just make installing
 > an application as simple as copying a directory onto your harddrive. 

Too late. /bin, /usr/bin/, /usr/X11R6/bin are all fairly established
at this stage. X-Open (I think) has a fairly sane version of this;
each vendor gets a subdirectory under /opt/ , and each app goes below
this subdirectory. Didn't really catch on outside of Solaris & some
SVR4s. 

 > Obviously, the amiga had ASSIGNs to make this easier, and Step had
 > appdir-support kludged into the FS, but there must be a clean way to do it.

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