Poll about package management

[Sukucorp Sukucorp]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Greg Schafer <gschafer at zip.com.au> wrote:
> Sukucorp Sukucorp wrote:
>
>  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.
>

I use the term fakeroot since the root is faked to be $InstallDir/
instead of / during the installation phase. When I used to mention
DESTDIR on the mailing list, there would invariably be a comment that
DESTDIR is not supported by all packages.

But I think a better term is the one used in the LFS book - package archive.


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