On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:50:44AM +0100, Per Olofsson wrote: > That's a good point, actually. Just symlinking the binaries and > manpages (?), unlike stow/depot/package, wouldn't be that many > symlinks and would make a lot more sense.
AFAIK, at least on Debian, man-pages are also listed in a database file (but unfortunately too complex for my simple scripts to use it instead of generating yet another index for faster completion) so it might not be necessary to symlink them. The kind of layout I described would also solve a lot other dependency problems as well in addition to compling&linking problems and name conflicts, since e.g. sarge and woody could go in different trees: /debian-woody, /debian-sarge. Or one could just install any two distributions, given that they somewhat agree on /basesys. -- Tuomo
