Poll about package management

[Greg Schafer]

Sukucorp Sukucorp wrote:

> I use a homegrown pkg manager. It used to be
> based on the pkg-user + fakeroot approach, but the latest one I am
> using has the pkg-user stuff removed since I found it was adding a lot
> of complexity without much benefit. My current PM uses a fakeroot
> approach by building and fakeroot installation as a non-root user and
> then untarring the created install tarball with some preInstall and
> postInstall scripts.

Arghh! Please stop mis-using the term "fakeroot". The real Fakeroot is a
Debian package designed to simulate a superuser environment. What you are
referring to is what the rest of the world calls a DESTDIR style approach.
The real Fakeroot is also used in Package Management which is why your
mis-use of the term is very confusing. It would be nice if you could also
fix your hint. Thanks.

Regards
Greg
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