Re: glibc; introducing slashpackage-foreign

[Thomas Schwinge]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:35:29AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> This is all very well, but could you give us some context why you
> posted this here in the first place?

Alfred wanted to know which flags I used to configure glibc on GNU/Hurd.
I told him.
He asked why I'd have to use '--prefix=[...] --with-headers=[...]'.
I gave a short introduction into the package-installation-system I'm
using (implying the need to use these flags).

> Are you suggesting something we
> should do, or what is this about?

It only was a heads-up: I'm doing this and that and it's working for me.
I gave this introduction to show what I (and others) are doing, that
it's working for us.
I wanted to give another opinion to the people designing an equivalent
system for the GNU system.


> We know the advantages of using separate directories to install
> packages into, but we also know the advantages of having all packages
> folded into a single directory hierarchy.

I'll continue discussing that topic on gnu-system-dicuss, ok?


Regards,
 Thomas