On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:47:29AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > >"Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> 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*. Sure does. > When you want to uninstall the package, you just cd to /usr/local/stow > again and type 'stow -D <package-name>', and it'll do the symlink magic > in reverse; then you can delete /usr/local/stow/<package-name> in one > go. That's the whole beauty of it. Thanks for all the replies. Sven -- The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
