<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461772111792_3305"><span>One thing-- msys2 might be the wrong analogy here, as there are some wrappers necessary to get it to work with <br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>native windows APIs. I'm just talking about the ease of installing a package, using it as a build environment without <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461772111792_3426" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461772111792_3427">being root, and being sure it doesn't leave any state after I uninstall/reinstall that package.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461772111792_3447" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461772111792_3427"></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461772111792_3427">Thanks,</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461772111792_3427">Jonathan</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 11:47 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6863948395"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv6863948395yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461770768831_8202">Hi list,</div><div id="yiv6863948395yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461770768831_8203">I'd like some help filling in the blank:<br id="yiv6863948395yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461770768831_8204"></div><div id="yiv6863948395yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461770768831_8205">msys2 is to Windows as _____ is to Debian.<br id="yiv6863948395yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461770768831_8206"></div><div><br></div><div id="yiv6863948395yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461770768831_8376" dir="ltr">Is there anything in Debian that lets me have a user-land build environment? I want to install all my build dependencies in user-land, <br></div><div id="yiv6863948395yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461770768831_8346" dir="ltr">without being root, without disrupting my normal system. Once the package is built I want to move it to my normal Debian system and <br></div><div id="yiv6863948395yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461770768831_8385" dir="ltr">test it by installing/uninstalling as root.<br></div><div id="yiv6863948395yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461770768831_8412" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv6863948395yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461770768831_8413" dir="ltr">Also, I want to build normal, boring deb packages, not containers or anything like that.</div><div id="yiv6863948395yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461770768831_8414" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv6863948395yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461770768831_8415" dir="ltr">Is there a way to do this?<br></div><div id="yiv6863948395yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461770768831_8330"><br></div><div id="yiv6863948395yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461770768831_8329" dir="ltr">-Jonathan</div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>