<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 16:12, Matthew Knepley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>This is exactly my point. The manpower is in having individual package maintainers, which is what we would need and not have.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, those people are not experts. It needs to be really easy for them, otherwise they wouldn't bother contributing. DESTDIR is not the problem you're making it out to be. It's orthogonal to the hard stuff, but if you use the DESTDIR, you can uninstall packages (or safely update without deleting everything).</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Sandboxing the compile/install or setting system permissions (e.g. via fakeroot) would be harder for PETSc to do (because it's different on different systems).</div></div>
</blockquote></div></div><br>Yes, nightmare.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>My point, and we don't try to solve this problem.</div></div>