Re: [Fink-beginners] Storing downloaded archives and tarballs

2002-03-19 Thread Anrdeas Gschwendtner
Hi Chris, I certainly didn't want to say that fink's "/sw" tree is messy in itself -- I realized that there is a tidy structure in there... It would just be more logical for my way of working (and thinking... and maybe feeling :) ), if there were an option to keep source and archives in a separa

Re: [Fink-beginners] Storing downloaded archives and tarballs

2002-03-19 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, [iso-8859-1] Anrdeas Gschwendtner wrote: > So I wondered how I can do this with fink and dselect. > Everything I downloaded so far went -- of course -- in > the depths of my /sw folder -- which resides on my > system startup disk. Look a little closer though, things aren't i

[Fink-beginners] Storing downloaded archives and tarballs

2002-03-19 Thread Anrdeas Gschwendtner
Hi everybody, just wanted to share some thoughts: Also I'm quite new to *nix OSs, I have quite a bit of experience in using Computers (Macs and PCs) in general. One lesson I learned is to keep a system and installed software separated from your Data and the stuff you need for an eventual reinstal