Re: Simplifying package installation.

[Karl Eichwalder <ke gnu franken de>]

"Jeffrey W. Bizzaro" <jeff@theopenlab.uml.edu> writes:

|   Eh.  I can't see why they wanted to change this,

It makes some things easier and more "secure" doing it via chroot() ;)

|   but since they did, a PPM would have to be yet another package
|   manager.  How about basing it on a stripped-down RPM?  I really need
|   something like this for Loci.

If you really want to, start with an early version of rpm and fold in
all fixes done since that time or with "pm", the package manager of the
famous BOGUS distribution.  "pm" is "rpm"'s precursor; "pm" keeps track
of installed files only via file lists.

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