Hello all! (I'll be short as I'm in a hurry.) I've made some (minor) modifications to pkgutils, which are available from my Git repository (given below), so if you're interested, please merge them in. (Even if not I would appreciate some comments. :) ) git://git.volution.ro/pkgutils.git I've done all these, because I want to use you package manager along side with apt-get (on Debian) for my own (hand-built) packages, and also in a non-standard location (like /packages for example). The patches contain some minor updates to the Makefile or the code: * added a SHARED variable, that when set on "yes" disables the "-static" compilation flag; (static compilation breaks on my Debian, and I've not investigated why;) * added a VARDIR variable, that allows to customize the /var/lib/pkg folder location; (both to the Makefile, C++ source code, Bash scripts and manual files;) * pushed the ETCDIR, BINDIR and MANDIR (although the last two are not needed) inside the C++ files to allow customization of these paths also; (there are still left LDCONFIG, etc.) * added a PREFIX variable (for example /usr/local); but by default is not set, and the old behavior is kept; I'm planning also to patch the applications to allow usage without root privileges. Thank's for the good job! Keep it up! Ciprian Craciun.