After a few years that I have made only good experience with
paco and then
porg, I feel like recommending the tool to everybody who wants to or has to install software differently than by using the utilities, which are usually provided by a Linux-distribution.
The tool was originally developed for
Linux From Scratch, paco (
PACkage
Organizer) was the old name of what is now called porg for
Package
ORGanizer. porg protocols changes to the file-system as well as some of the properties...