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: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:54:05 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84smx2ti36.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> <121220021324043990%ajanta@no.spam> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039769782 8376 80.91.224.249 (13 Dec 2002 08:56:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:56:22 +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 18MlcL-0002Au-00 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:56:21 +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 18MlbS-0004AP-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 03:55:26 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!easynews.net!newsfeed3.easynews.net!newsfeed.arcor-online.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951f511.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: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951f511.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.245.17) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1039769647 36464882 217.81.245.17 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WFFLkBbHZCbZ7p78sZZKWAfoppc= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:348804 gnu.emacs.help:108076 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:4607 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4607 Ajanta writes: > I wasn't aware of this and will have to look into it. However, unless a > program's creators cooperate, I can't visualize how stow would prevent > a program from installing files all over the place leaving you with no > way to uninstall? No, stow needs the cooperation of the packages. But for the packages I have seen it is usually trivial to tell them to install themselves into a specific directory. The stow documentation also gives some advice on installing packages so that they work well with it. -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)