On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:29:09AM +0100, Geoffroy Carrier wrote: > Using symlinks is IMHO absolutely amazing. That's what alternatives > systems (from Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora/Red Hat, the later being, I must > precise for transparency, my employer) do when multiple > implementations are available for the same tool, and extending that to > versioning is actually what caught my eye as a brilliant design.
Isn't this the same as what MacPorts is doing with hard links and port activate/deactivate? Or am I misunderstanding? (I couldn't find much info about what they are doing with symlinks.) Dan -- Dan R. K. Ports MIT CSAIL http://drkp.net/ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
