[gobolinux-users] rootless on Windows [was: you can remove 99% ]

[John Griessen]

mpb wrote:
> The goal of my experiment was to have complete and entirely
> independent systems living in /home/goboA and /home/goboB so that I
> would not need to use chroot at all.  
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my current strategy is to use Ubuntu (preferably LTS) as a
> base, use Ubuntu provided *-dev packages for 90+% of the required
> libraries, and then compile only the very top layer of software in
> GoboRootless.  So far, I am entirely satisfied with this strategy.
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> On 10/28/07, John Griessen <john at foseda.com> wrote:
>> I'm planning to try gobolinux for distributing gEDA GPL software.
>> Such a plan needs to be vanilla, and the goal is to allow frequent updates,
>> and multiple versions of programs easily..
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> Rootless (on top of the Linux of your choice) would work fine for
> this.  There is no need to run GoboLinux in a VM. 
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> -mpb


For people using a linux/unix distro, rootless would be better than
downloading a whole distro image to put in a VM for each revision...and I'd
like to have that possible for Windows users too.

Is Cygwin the way to do rootless on Windows, or is mingw possible?  The wiki
has just a stub with no content about this now...

You say, "use Ubuntu (preferably LTS) as a base".  Is the reason for
that choice the ability to update an installation from a package list
so you can keep it in a known state?  Would debian be as good?

Thanks,

John Griessen