Re: Packages that need helper apps outside of XEmacs.

Simon> I'm only familiar with rpm, and it has --prefix that does Simon> relocation. Really amazing that dpkg doesn't support it, I Simon> wonder how people with more than one machine and a network Simon> filesystem survives. First, --prefix mostly doesn't do the job (cf Jered Floyd's post "configure doesn't honor exec-prefix"), although --relocate might. But not all packages are relocatable. Second, applications make all kinds of assumptions about relative paths or about $PATH. It would be very easy to break those apps in unobvious ways; I bet that's why dpkg doesn't try to support this functionality. That's a feature only someone who can afford 800 support lines could afford to support! -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."