On Fri Sep 29, 2000 at 00:23:55 -0700, Willy Lee wrote: > "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Quick question on administration: > >> > >> what exactly is the best way to deal with locally installed > >> software from source under the /usr/local/ or /opt/ tree? > >> > >> I use GNU stow, but never actually saw anyone suggesting this to be > >> *the* method. > > > You have now ;) That's exactly how I deal with it, and I haven't > > seen anything that can do the job as well ... > > > And the symlink algorithm it uses just *rocks*. > > You have piqued my curiosity. What is GNU stow, why is it so cool, > and is there a URL I should look at?
You can find stow on every GNU mirror, the website is http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ Maybe you also want to look at http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~al10/stowES/ Makes my life with stow a lot more easier :-) Adam -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lackorzynski http://a.home.dhs.org
