Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:26:02 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX Message-ID: <15079.2218.401004.614648@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20010425115413.C74143@cec.wustl.edu> References: <15077.30207.8849.168351@guru.mired.org> <200104250915.f3P9FcB152869@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20010425115413.C74143@cec.wustl.edu>
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Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> types: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:15:38AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > A great deal of dpkg and rpm packages will not allow you to relocate > them. Common examples are gnome-libs, kde-libs, and other stuff that you > probably want moved more than anything. Of course, since all of gnome > depends on the libraries, that also means you can't move any of the > gnome packages. A classic example of how linux is simpler and more > intelligent than FreeBSD... until you want to customize things. That's part of the popularization (or Windowsification) effort. Making things simpler if you give people exactly what you want them to have. Making things simpler while giving them exactly what they want to have is much harder. > Slackware is the only system that gives you FULL control over where > packages are kept (at least in the old days). Since slackware packages > are simply tarballs, you can extract them anywhere you like. Yes, but will the execute properly under those conditons? pkg_add will gladly install a package whever you tell it to, but if the package has paths compiled into it, it will fail. I dropped mail on -ports suggesting that we add an rpm-like relocatable flag to packages. That would improve the current situation. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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