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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:392 comp.os.386bsd.misc:718 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!warwick!uknet!gdt!aber!fronta.aber.ac.uk!pcg From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? In-Reply-To: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de's message of 19 Aug 1993 21: 59:10 +0200 Message-ID: <PCG.93Aug20185106@decb.aber.ac.uk> Sender: news@aber.ac.uk (USENET news service) Nntp-Posting-Host: decb.aber.ac.uk Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Organization: Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth References: <55270001@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> <24gnu4$skm@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <24m779$b0h@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> <BDC.93Aug15214130@transit.ai.mit.edu> <24rbb5$t51@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <24vd7h$frk@horus.mch.sni.de> <MIKE.93Aug19115915@pdx800.jf.intel.com> <deeken.745789885@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 17:51:06 GMT Lines: 16 >>> On 19 Aug 1993 21:59:10 +0200, deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de >>> (Hannes Deeken) said: Hannes> I hope FreeBSD 1.0 and/or NetBSD 0.9 have the concept of Hannes> 'software packages' and means to install and deinstall them, at Hannes> least for 'third party' software like X or TeX. One can get from CMU a rather nice package install/deinstall utility called 'depot' that does this rather elegantly. Unfortunately it requires a bit of hand munging of most makefiles, as under it the installation directory is not the same directory as the directory under which the program will be run (each package is installed in a subtree of its own; depot then merges packages into a single subtree for users to use). As far as I know only perl has the right configuration options that allow for separate architecture dependent/independent install dirs and separate install/run subtrees...