From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 5 6:59: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from megaweapon.zigg.com (megaweapon.zigg.com [206.114.60.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B786B14CE1 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 06:58:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by megaweapon.zigg.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA26022; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 09:58:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 09:58:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Behrens To: Lutz Albers Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSH2 (in FreeBSD-Questions) In-Reply-To: <871118459.928584054@ripley.tavari.muc.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Lutz Albers wrote: : Do you know the Modules package (www.modules.org). This might spare you the : symlink game. You specify which environment variables are to be changed and : then just say 'module add ' or 'module rm '. : Granted, you need a patched shell to support the resulting long PATH : variable, but on the plus side it gives you the possibility to install and : use multiple version of a package without major problems (i.e. different : gtk versions) Yeah, I've heard of it, but didn't get too much farther than looking at it. It looks interesting, and very well-planned, but I guess I fail to see the advantage of it over symlinks, especially because there is a lot of groundwork to cover. Is there something inherently bad about symlinks? :-) I mean, with the symlink structure, adding packges is very clean, and removing packages is as easy as rm -rf /opt/package, and rescanning the symlinks (better yet -- a script could be easily written up to look for orphaned symlinks, entirely in an automatic fashion.) The only thing that I have to munge with is patching the source tarballs before running everything *sigh* :-) Matt Behrens Owner/Administrator, zigg.com Chief Engineer, Nameless IRC Network To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message