[opam-devel] global installation with opam

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

Thanks for the great writeup Simon!

I do wonder why Thomas thinks that OPAMROOT is a bad solution though.  It
seems quite clean to me -- you can have an OPAM installation pointing to
(e.g.) /usr/local/opam and either add that your global PATH or symlink binaries
into /usr/local/bin.

This could be scripted up with a fairly trivial shell script (caveat: that I
haven't actually written).

-anil

> On 10 Dec 2014, at 23:12, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas at gazagnaire.org> wrote:
> 
> A (bad) solution is to set change OPAMROOT to an appropriate location.
> 
> Thanks for the write-up, this is very helpful to understand the use-cases. I've created https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/1895 to track that.
> 
> Best,
> Thomas
> 
> 
>> On 10 Dec 2014, at 13:16, Simon Cruanes <simon.cruanes.2007 at m4x.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Is there a blessed way to install packages system-wide using Opam? I
>> suspect there isn't, so I attached a document [1] that describes my
>> use-cases and what I'm thinking of (of course I know you opam
>> developers are busy).
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> -- 
>> Simon
>> 
>> [1] http://cedeela.fr/~simon/files/opam_system.html
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