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Originally Posted by twobob
I have a stupid question.
Other than the RW problem
What's to prevent mkdir /mnt/us; ln -s mnt/us ~/ (or something) to stop the extra /home || mnt/us faffing in the future. Or is that a stupid question?
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If you can write to /mnt ...
Nothing.
But the "DESTDIR= ..." thing allows you to build archives that can be directly unpacked into /mnt/us from per-package top directories.
If you directly install the /mnt/us (however you get it to be present), then once you build your second package, you have to start sorting out the various package parts from /mnt/us/*
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Sometimes, when BOPC (building other people's code) you have to enter into a Zen-like trance and try to channel into the author's mind with a: "What the p... where you thinking when ...." .
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Yup, I agree.
You haven't asked yet, but we most probably need to build our own version of a rootfs rather than use Rob's idea of a rootfs.