Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:51:48 +0000 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: nclayton@lehman.com, Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Stow, and the ports system? Message-ID: <19990331205148.A14649@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903311407470.55565-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from The Hermit Hacker on Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 02:09:11PM -0400 References: <19990331104809.F14492@lehman.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903311407470.55565-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On Wed 1999-03-31 (14:09), The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Even more fun is when you create a file in /usr/local that isn't > "registered" in the 'stow database'...next time you run stow, it will > happily remove it for you :) > > At least, with the system we were using, 'stow' (in our case, called > 'depot') *owns* /usr/local ... don't put anything in there that it doesn't > know about or it will trash it... Stow doesn't maintain state information between running, and thus doesn't have a "database" - that's one of it's main differences compared to Depot. That and stow is a lot simpler than Depot, which can sometimes be pretty cryptic, and is also much safer (for the reasons you mention above). Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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