On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:59:49PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Martin Marcher wrote: >> Rick Thomas wrote: >> >>> I sincerely hope that the lack of Xen support in Lenny is a temporary >>> thing that will be fixed before the first Beta release. Does anybody >>> know what's the problem? >> >> ... and I gave up following that since the only sane options to >> get a stable xen host where: >> >> a) use distro packages from a stable tree >> b) use the download from xensource (which I dislike because it >> pollutes the >> machine) >> ... > > In what way does the download from Xensource "pollute" the machine?
I suppose that might be a sort of rhetorical question, but downloading software into /usr/local, /opt/ and the like should be perfectly safe on a debian system. debian doesn't mess with those parts of the filesystem, and as long as the installed stuff doesn't mess with the non-local system directories, libraries, etc., there should be no conflicts. If the sources you're installing from *do* put things into "system" as opposed to "local" places, then you could probably look at that as "polluting the machine". Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
