True.

I have a better solution even, which I've been getting around to posting for these couple of weeks.

Anyhow, what I've done is created a shell script wrapper via dynamically exporting paths etc. which enables you to what I call optlink any package installed anywhere.

The benefit of this is, it doesn't require root privileges, I just optlink all the apps into a ~/root and ~/links directories and it enables you to have multiple instances/different versions of the package installed, to remove just optunlink it, it just removes the symlinks in these directories all the paths get reexported and your system is clean, you don't mess with anything...

I've been using it some time now, works great, also on a PC.

Need to post a complete guide on this.

You then install apps just by unpacking anywhere, again no root privs, and optlinking it...

I've got all the GNU tools installed this way, not messing with busybox etc.