From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:43:51 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84fzt3hvk8.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <56cfb0e3.0212041458.5eab182a@posting.google.com> <061220020416350201%ajanta@no.spam> <84bs3xsyi8.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <071220021155280606%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <101220021125583826%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> <5l65u0i8zj.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220022053507599%ajanta@no.spam> <84k7ifo3s2.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <87u1hjdwta.fsf@hurd.crasseux.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039722678 12097 80.91.224.249 (12 Dec 2002 19:51:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:51:18 +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 18MZLr-00035b-00 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:50:32 +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 18MZIt-0003Ky-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:47:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1efca.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1efca.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.239.202) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1039722235 34377769 217.225.239.202 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kK8cjt0wNKUlXqpk1LCxFa1k+1A= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:348734 gnu.emacs.help:108050 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:4581 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4581 Bijan Soleymani writes: > 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. I don't use Stow, but I think it's not a (complete) solution. We have several versions of Java installed in /usr/sw/java, and some people need one version whereas other people need another version (on the same machine). I'm thinking about making a directory /usr/sw/bin and populating it with symlinks, but currently, we don't have enough software packages to justify this effort. (Happily, Debian provides lots of packages so we don't have to install too many of them.) -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)