LSB and FHS (was Re: [Gllug] tar.gz)

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Sun Feb 3 23:45:54 UTC 2002


On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Bruce Richardson moaned:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:30:12PM +0000, Nix wrote:
>> Why not use GNU stow and the /usr/local / /usr/local/stow trees for
>> this? (Debian even *provides* a /usr/local/stow directory for this
>> purpose!)
> 
> Yup, do that.  Stow is a lovely little app and December's Linux Magazine
> (UK version) had a nice little article all about it;)

Note that stow is under active maintenance again, and there was a new
release recently with most of stow's historic annoyances fixed.

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