Distro idea

[Dave Smith]

Brian Hawkins wrote:
> OK I've ranted long enough, here is my solution.  Change the package manager
> to install everything under one directory.  For example if I were to install
> Postgres on my system it would create a directory /programs/postgres82/ and
> put the program there.  In the program directory it would create a /usr /var
> /bin or whatever it needed for the application to install.  The package
> manager would also install whatever dependencies it required in the same
> location. 

Gobo Linux is *almost* like this. Have you seen it?

http://www.gobolinux.org/

--Dave