Re: New package system design draft

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 03:59:05 -0000, Justin Vallon said: Amen, brother.. ;) That was my biggest concern with the current package system - that it can't easily deal with this, especially in a multi-user environment where "install the ones you need yourself" isnt an option... While we're here, let me remind everybody that "the directory you install into" isn't always the one you execute out of. For AFS or Depot installations, you need to be able to specify something like "installprefix=/path/to/use/instead/of/usr_local". For the base Xemacs, I can use 'make install prefix='. Perl allows a 'config.over' file that changes the various installdir values. For a Sumo tarball, I can 'cd $installpref; tar xvf' and then do the back-end magic to make things appear in /usr/local. But I haven't seen a way to do that function with the current package code (if I'm blind, somebody hand me a braille pointer to the incantation needed). Since I use Depot here, I've basically been stuck untarring Sumos and not using the fancy package-updater, since it insists on scribbling in /usr/local by default.. pui-package-install-dest-dir *almost* does the right thing, except it's in package-ui.el, it would be nice if the defcustom was actually in package-get.el, so jsut saying M-x package-get-update-all would Do The Right Thing. (Basically, from the menubar, pui-list-packages can *install* into a new target directory, but "Update installed packages" takes you to package-get-update-all which doesn't seem to know how to do it...) Enough 4AM rambling.. ;) /Valdis