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Re: Stow
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Nick Patavalis |
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Re: Stow |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:55:54 +0300 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
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
- using cvs to contol system files, vi1pdqyo02, 2002/10/23
- RE: using cvs to contol system files, Ray Tayek, 2002/10/25
- Stow, Eric Siegerman, 2002/10/25
- Re: Stow,
Nick Patavalis <=
- Re: Stow, Paul Sander, 2002/10/25
- Re: Stow, Eric Siegerman, 2002/10/25
- Re: Stow, Paul Sander, 2002/10/25
- Re: Stow, Eric Siegerman, 2002/10/25
- Re: Stow, Paul Sander, 2002/10/25
RE: using cvs to contol system files, Greg A. Woods, 2002/10/25