Richard Stallman writes:
> Is Stow still useful, or should we think of Guix as a replacement for it?
Stow is definitely still useful. I'm aware of two universities that use
it internally for package management on large numbers of POSIX-ish
systems, and I maintain a GNU/Linux distribution that us
Adam Sampson skribis:
> Something like Guix is the right way to go if you're designing a new
> system from scratch, but Stow is very effective for simple package
> management inside an existing system.
Agreed. Stow is a lightweight tool that certainly has its use in some
contexts.
Ludo’.
> Is Stow still useful, or should we think of Guix as a replacement for it?
I personally use it to manage my home-directory config files
("dotfiles") so I can have them all sorted nicely by application and
under version control in one directory and then only stow the ones I
need into their proper
Is Stow still useful, or should we think of Guix as a replacement for it?
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Hi,
Adam Spiers skribis:
> So you should probably not worry too much about any overlap with Guix,
> although it *may* be instructive to consider the fundamental design
> differences between a symlink-based approach and one which does not
> rely on symlinks.
Note that Nix & Guix use one director
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Brandon Invergo skribis:
>>> I am pleased to announce GNU Guix, an on-going project to build a
>>> functional package manager and associated free software distribution of
>>> the GNU system.
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> There’s also GNU Stow.
>
> There’s
