On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Greg Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
