What about stow ? (Score 1)

I use GNU-Stow and it works fine for me. To use stow, you have to compile sources package, install the package in a directory (/usr/local/stow/mypackage for example) and then, you "stow" all your package. Stow makes symbolic links between your package and the target directory. For example, I am in the /usr/local/stow directory: stow -t /usr mypackage I select /usr as a target directory and stow makes symlinks between all files in the mypackage directory and the /usr directory. All binary files in the /usr/local/stow/mypackage/bin go into the /usr/bin directory, etc ... So now it's relatively easy to manage packages. You just need to compile sources packages (not as so difficult as installing a rpm package). If you want to remove your package: Unstow it, and rm -rf /usr/local/stow/mypackage and everything is clean. You can find stow at: http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/stow.html Your sincerely, Yann COLLETTE