On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 13:36 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Yeah. I'm on Debian. We use Fedora at work. I created an rpm using alien
> > to install tailor on one of the work machines. I might go straight to
> > the source now, though.
>
> Use "GNU stow". It is a simple hack that takes around 5 minutes to learn, and
> it makes it so you can install software from source without having to remember
> which versions of which packages you have installed. It also makes it trivial
> and safe to uninstall packages which you earlier installed from source.
>
> --Z
Interesting. Do you have an opinion about xstow? Here are some details:
An extended replacement of GNU Stow written in C++
XStow (like GNU Stow) is a program for managing the installation
of
software packages, keeping them separate (/usr/local/stow/emacs
vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for example) while making them appear
to be installed in the same place (/usr/local).
The extended features include: creation of symlinks with
absolute
path names, traversal link support (create a link from
/usr/share/man to /usr/man), multiple stow directories support,
shell pattern matching, regular expressions support, and global
settings via configuration files.
I haven't used either.
David
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