On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:23 +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > Stow of course can be used to install software much in the way I described, > but it really shouldn't be necessary to make the links for anything else > except the binaries as those are accessed so frequently. Most importantly > libraries and headers should _not_ be symlinked anywhere; only a directory > versioned by the API version alone should be linked to the app directory of > an actual release (ion-2 -> ion-2-20040207 etc.).
That's a good point, actually. Just symlinking the binaries and manpages (?), unlike stow/depot/package, wouldn't be that many symlinks and would make a lot more sense. -- Pelle
