On Jul 28, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I guess that goes back to "Your distro, your rules". I haven't felt the > need you have. I prefer a simpler system.
Absolutely, which is why it's nice to demonstrate in the book the simplest method of PM, namely DESTDIR. That one extra variable passed to make install is the base of so many methods of package management. So LFS doesn't have to support any specific package management method , but it can show what specific command for this package (because some do vary) will achieve the standard DESTDIR result. And even if you just hit make install after that and use no PM, having that in the book provides another excellent opportunity to demonstrate to the reader what exactly is happening in their system when they run make install. Doing it this way would also mean that you as a developer don't have to worry about supporting any PM. To me, it's the same sort of step that we encourage by running the test suite. Install the items to a temporary location first, audit what is there or package it up if you wish, and move on. That's my opinion, anyway. Jeremy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
