An idea for a new development model

[Bryan Kadzban]

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taipan67 wrote:
> Bryan Kadzban wrote:
>> DESTDIR=$dest on all the packages, for instance, shouldn't hurt if
>> $dest is empty.
> 
> Obviously $dest must be "chgrp install && chmod 1775" in such a case,

The case where $dest is empty?  :-P

> but beyond that i found it actually _improved_ on the pkgusr method -
> it even negates one or two of the gremlins mentioned in the hint, &
> allows for additional install-dir's to be correctly created when
> needed, like during X-installation.

Oh: you're setting it up so the package user uses a non-empty DESTDIR,
then moves the files into the real system?  That's an interesting idea;
hmm.  I'm not seeing where it would matter much; can you be more
specific on some of the gremlins that this helps with?

Or aren't you moving the files as the package user?  I'd think you'd
have to...
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