Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 16:07:21 -0759 From: Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com> To: libh@freebsd.org, op-tech@openpackages.org Subject: Managing symlink farms Message-ID: <20001124160721.A1777@lizzy.bugworks.com>
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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
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