On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 20:51:58 +0000 Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just found out about stow. It just seems too good to be true. So: > did I misunderstood something? Any gotchas that are not obvious? Jorge, I haven't used stow myself so I can't comment on how well it works. I think it would work in almost all cases and that the packages with problems would be those that have trouble when installing to *any* directory other than /usr or /usr/local. Another possible "gotcha" is when the package to be installed wants to tweak something (else) in the main filesystem, say /etc, versus just add something to /path/to/stow/foo/etc One package manager I have used before is porg (It had that name long before Star Wars ever used it. Now we have to search using porg package manager rather than just porg to find the correct related sites): http://porg.sourceforge.net/ and I do like it. It does not use simlinks, but rather maintains a database of the files installed. With stow, this filelist information is carried by the symlinks themselves. The advantage of stow is that the package installation step does not have to be done as root. Cheers, Mike Shell -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
