change root when installing packages

From: Tomas Carnecky (tom_at_dbservice.com)
Date: 10/23/04

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    I'd like to install a package into another directory, change the root
    partition, something like gentoo does when installing the compiled
    package into a sandbox environment somewhere under /usr/portage/...

    thanks
    tom

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