On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:07:22PM -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote: > > Stow (http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/stow.html) is excellent > for this! It's basically a package manager, but an extremely > lightweight one. >
I agree. Stow rules! It is a fine example of treating problems with a purelly "unix" philosply (don't develop milions of lines of buggy C code for something that can be solved using a few scripts). > - Don't be anal about it. Some packages expect to be in their > own subdirectories, rather than dispersed throughout > /usr/local. Humour them. Be willing to let Apache go > directly into /usr/local/apache as it prefers, rather than > being stow-managed. Or if you want multiple versions, put > them in /usr/local/apache-<version> and make the (single) > symlink by hand. Likewise Java JREs and SDKs. I totaly agree, though I would suggest putting these "anal" packages in a different hierarchy altogether. Everything inside "/usr/local" should be stow-managed. A good place for those would be under "/opt" /npat -- Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty. -- Aldous Huxley _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
