Re: Packages that need helper apps outside of XEmacs.

>> * Managers like RPM and dpkg are way too complex for what we need, >> and yet are woefully inadequate when it comes to solving problems >> we have. We need user-installable packages, installing packages >> in different locations, support for multiple XEmacs versions on >> the same machine, > > Rpm/deb should handle this, I think. It's just tar/cpio/whatever > with a fancy interface, you can unpack it everywhere. This is simply false. One of my past jobs involved building the Debian packaging system on Solaris, so I'm intimately familiar with workings of (parts of) dpkg. It can definitely not handle the things I listed above, including unpacking the software to a chosen location.