On 6 January 2018 at 02:08, Michael Shell <li...@michaelshell.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 20:51:58 +0000 > Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.com> 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? > > 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 > > porg package manager > > rather than just porg to find the correct related sites): > > http://porg.sourceforge.net/ > > 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. > > +1 for porg. I've used it continuously since it was paco and it works well for me. Richard
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