From owner-freebsd-libh Fri Nov 24 16: 7: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from w250.z064001178.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net (w250.z064001178.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.178.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E60237B479 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 16:06:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1854 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Nov 2000 00:07:21 -0000 Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 16:07:21 -0759 From: Jos Backus To: libh@freebsd.org, op-tech@openpackages.org Subject: Managing symlink farms Message-ID: <20001124160721.A1777@lizzy.bugworks.com> Reply-To: Jos Backus Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Regarding the discussion about installing packages in their own subdirectories: To create a synthetic /usr/local (and others) we use Slink. It appears to be much more flexible than, for example, GNU stow. http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~couch/Slink/slink.html Also of interest to this discussion may be what the Arusha project is doing, specifically their take on their package management: http://ark.sourceforge.net/pkg-mgmt.html -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Modularity is not a hack." _/ _/ _/ -- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ josb@cncdsl.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message