On 2004-05-15 23:06:09 +0100 Graham Trott gt@pobox.com wrote:
[...] Unfortunately there's quite a lot of that, especially once you get into multimedia (for example).
I don't know if DeMuDi still have multimedia things which aren't packaged for main debian yet. http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/demudi_1_0_apt has some apt source lines.
/root that mirrors the main structure (e.g. /root/custom/{etc,usr...}) and just set up symlinks to them from their "proper" places?
I think it's more normal to confine tarball-installed things to /usr/local or /opt, or use stow, gobo or something similar to control symlinks. Taking copies of etc is also handy for reference on a reinstall. I'm not sure whether you can dump all debconf settings in any structured way, which might also be useful.