Well that's still better, in my opinion, than package managers and all their various restrictions. But ideally I want something like AppImage, where an application is a singular entity that can just be moved at will and run from wherever [0]. Most DOS programs and many Windows programs (if you extract them from the installer) will still work like that.
> I had similar problem. I joined two physical disks into one logical using LVM and forgot about problem. :-/
If you unplug the external disk, your system stops working. This is not what I want, as I mentioned already in the post you're replying to.
[0] classic MacOS, RiscOS, and NeXT all had programs that worked like this too. Linux has yet to achieve the flexibility in application management afforded by the OSs of the 1980s.
I had similar problem. I joined two physical disks into one logical using LVM and forgot about problem. :-/