----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Claudio Fontana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: GNU System Explanation
However, I do not understand why the need for the
symlink.
The packages could be directly installed in
/packages/package_name/ as a real directory, with the
same result.
That is right. However, symlinks make installation and deinstallation
more convenient.
Also, the name of the symlink can specify virtual renaming of the
executables "installed" in /bin. That's how you would make two
versions of Emacs coexist.
I still don't see how this is possible with binary packages. If there is an
API/ABI change in libemacs (yes I am being facecious here) and both are
"stowed" to /lib you can't execute both versions anyway. Or am I still
missing something?
Thanks,
Barry deFreese (aka bddebian)
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