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Date:      Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:02:03 +0000
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        nclayton@lehman.com
Cc:        Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GNU Stow, and the ports system?
Message-ID:  <19990331210203.B14649@rucus.ru.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <19990331104809.F14492@lehman.com>; from nclayton@lehman.com on Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 10:48:09AM %2B0100
References:  <19990330085646.T14492@lehman.com> <19990330113617.A22325@rucus.ru.ac.za> <199903302217.OAA41059@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990331104809.F14492@lehman.com>

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On Wed 1999-03-31 (10:48), nclayton@lehman.com wrote:
> > As an option?  Heck, I'd like to see it as the default. :)
> 
> OK.  I tried playing with it briefly last night, but ran in to all sorts
> of problems (some of which are doubtless to do with the fact that my box
> is in a state of disarray at the moment).  In particular it seems to 
> violently object to the fact that /usr/local/ on my system is a symlink 
> to /local/1/usr.local.

This is one of the weirder things I've seen it do - when the directory to
be stowed to is itself a symlink.  It also has some weird incongruencies
mentioned in the manual.

> I'll get some more time next week.  In the mean time I note that it's 
> written in Perl 4.  I could well be better off dusting down some of
> my own scripts (Perl 5) and properly documenting them instead.

It's pretty old, and that's one of the reasons I offered to write something
like it.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za


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