On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 2:08 AM, Michael Shell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 20:51:58 +0000 > Jorge Almeida <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just found out about stow. It just seems too good to be true. So: >> did I misunderstood something? Any gotchas that are not obvious? > >
> > Another possible "gotcha" is when the package to be installed wants > to tweak something (else) in the main filesystem, say /etc, versus > just add something to /path/to/stow/foo/etc Yes, I suppose that was to be expected. Still, much better than installing and loosing track... > One package manager I have used before is porg (It had that name > long before Star Wars ever used it. Now we have to search using > > and I do like it. It does not use simlinks, but rather maintains > a database of the files installed. With stow, this filelist > information is carried by the symlinks themselves. The advantage > of stow is that the package installation step does not have to be > done as root. > I suppose the database must require at least the same amount of space as the forest of symlinks, probably more, so I think my reluctance about the symlinks was unwarranted. I found about porg yesterday (and I didn't see the SW movie yet!!). The interface seems nice, but the talk about the innards (catching system call et al.) makes me uncomfortable. The down-to-earth approach of stow seems to match the LFS way. Cheers Jorge -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
