Re: choosing a Package Management...

2009-07-24 Thread Mike McCarty
RaptorX wrote: [in answer to my reply] > while I do agree with you that there will be loads of users hanging around > there is no security hole as far as I read... from the hint: I tried to answer your question *as asked*, which was "Why don't standard distros use this method?" I answered that i

Re: choosing a Package Management...

2009-07-23 Thread RaptorX
> > *See above. Most distros are "build once, install many", and the separate > user technique is not very suited to that. For one thing, it overloads > something which is not intended for that kind of work, namely, the > password user authentication system. It would mean that the distro would > co

Re: choosing a Package Management...

2009-07-23 Thread Mike McCarty
RaptorX wrote: > Hi guys... > > I made it without troubles to chapter 6.3 of LFS [6.4]. > Here we are talking about package management. It briefly describes different > types of systems, I like particularly the user-based one even though I am > not sure if I have to create or download a script tha

RE: choosing a Package Management...

2009-07-23 Thread Spahn, Daniel
ng to suggest a possible solution that might be a better fit to your needs. -Original Message- From: lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org [mailto:lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] On Behalf Of Ken Moffat Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:25 PM To: LFS Support List Subject:

Re: choosing a Package Management...

2009-07-23 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/7/23 RaptorX : > And > > if you have to choose which of this would be your choice and why: > > --User Based Management > > --Creating Package Archives > > --Tracing Installation Scripts > > --Symlink Style Package Management > Way back when, some of us (well, me at least!) were driven to

Re: choosing a Package Management...

2009-07-23 Thread RaptorX
And if you have to choose which of this would be your choice and why: --User Based Management --Creating Package Archives --Tracing Installation Scripts --Symlink Style Package Management On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:13 PM, RaptorX wrote: > Hi guys... > > I made it without troubles to chap

choosing a Package Management...

2009-07-23 Thread RaptorX
Hi guys... I made it without troubles to chapter 6.3 of LFS [6.4]. Here we are talking about package management. It briefly describes different types of systems, I like particularly the user-based one even though I am not sure if I have to create or download a script that uses that kind of system