Format for the future LFS

[DJ Lucas]

Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 
> So, please express your ideas in the following areas:
> 

First and foremost, SLOW DOWN!!!!  How about some baby steps instead of 
leaps and bounds.  The recent threads are going nowhere because we have 
20 individual topics crammed into one thread.  There have been 4 now 
that have all resulted in no clear direction.  DESTDIR sounds like a 
logical first step.  I've excluded the rest of your message as it 
doesn't seem useful just yet.  Again, knowing nothing about the various 
PMs, I've made some assumptions.  Can someone confirm or deny those for me?

For RPM, I've made the assumption that you take a spec file and a source 
tarball, and create an installable binary package, then install that 
package.  I don't suppose that the second step is automated only by rpm 
itself, so the installation portion is different.  I expect that, but 
are the configure, make, make install commands the same for all DESTDIR 
methods?  Looking at different PMs, how much will be in common WRT to 
CMMI?

On DESTDIR installs, DESTDIR can be an exported environment variable and 
the target cleaned out after every installation is completed.  If that 
is possible, then the no PM group, the install-watch group, and the 
timestamp group are completeley unaffected by the changes for a mass 
majority of the packages as DESTDIR="".  I'm looking for simplicity in 
common instructions first.  Again, take some baby steps, one thing at a 
time.  Lets try not make things so complicated just yet.  If the above 
handles getting DESTDIR into the current book, with such simplicity, 
then get that part done first.  Explicitly set DESTDIR="" for the first 
cut and the book still works as is.  If not, then if you would be so 
kind as to explain away my assumptions, it'd be much appreciated by me 
for certain, but would help in educating the rest of the readers as well 
WRT RPM anyway.  Also, the same goes for other DESTDIR PMs that anybody 
would care to explain.

Thanks.

-- DJ Lucas