From: dws@cseg03.uark.edu (David W. Summers) Subject: Re: Discussion: FS tree for large packages Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1992 17:04:42 GMT
ee89jje%ee.surrey.ac.uk (Ed) writes:
>Lars Wirzenius (wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
> I would personally prefer to have a scheme where packages are installed
> in such a way that all installed files are logged into a database, which
> can be used during uninstallation to decide which files should be
> deleted. I have played around with a few ideas to implement this, but
> don't have the time to make it work properly.
>
SunOS Solaris 2.0 is supposed to have an /opt directory tree for packages
other than the base system...maybe we could investigate how they are going
to do it and do something similar? The above mentioned installation is
just something I picked up from one of the free magazines (rags?) that
I get.
- David Summers
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