From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bijan Soleymani Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: 12 Dec 2002 11:30:25 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87u1hjdwta.fsf@hurd.crasseux.com> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <56cfb0e3.0212041458.5eab182a@posting.google.com> <061220020416350201%ajanta@no.spam> <071220021155280606%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <091220021652087216%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021101520860%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> <5l65u0i8zj.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220022053507599%ajanta@no.spam> <84k7ifo3s2.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039711151 24190 80.91.224.249 (12 Dec 2002 16:39:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:39:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18MWMf-0006Ht-00 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:39:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MWF7-0007kg-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:31:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!wesley.videotron.net!weber.videotron.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.203.44.117 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@videotron.ca Original-X-Trace: weber.videotron.net 1039710547 24.203.44.117 (Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:29:07 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:29:07 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:348716 gnu.emacs.help:108040 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4571 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4571 kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > At our site, we have a directory for software with subdirs for each > program, and subsubdirs for each version. For example, > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/sw/emacs/21.2 > > is sufficient to configure Emacs in such a way that subsequent `make' > and `make install' can be undone easily by just removing the > directory /usr/sw/emacs/21.2. This works because Emacs is the only > program in that directory. > > It's a very simple approach, but it works well enough for us. > > -- In that case you might want to check out GNU stow. You put all your software in a stow directory /usr/local/stow/ or /usr/sw/ one program per subdirectory. Then when you run stow it makes symlinks in /usr/local/. This way you can even do this sort of thing with libraries or programs you would like to have in your path. Bijan