From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-05-09T23:45:24+09:00
Subject: Re: petition for raa-install to be included in 1.8

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:41:41PM +0900, tom@u2i.com wrote:
> Yes, it's incomplete. But in the case of developing an equivilent to CPAN
> I saw the perfect being the enemy of the good with regard to getting it
> rolled out.
> 
> I made the deliberate compromise to make it work without requiring
> software to be re-packaged (and so work with the majority of packages on
> RAA with no modification).
> 
> Uninstall and dependency tracking are the two biggest features missing.
> You would be more than welcome to get CVS access to implement them :-)

One way to do it on Un*x would be setting up a chroot and installing
there (unfortunately needs root). Then you get the list of files and
copy them to their final destination.
 

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