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There was actually a tool for managing such symlink trees, “depot” from CMU: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~help/unix_linux/software_collections/local_depot.html http

by js2 9y ago

There was actually a tool for managing such symlink trees, “depot” from CMU: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~help/unix_linux/software_collections/local_depot.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~help/unix_linux/software_collections...

predakanga 9y ago
Interesting - I wonder if that inspired GNU Stow (similar tool I often see used for managing dotfiles)
- js2 9y ago
  The CMU depot was presented at LISA '93: http://static.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa93/full_papers/wong.pdf http://static.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/li... Stow apparently started development in 1996 and was initially named depot: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/stow.git/tree/doc/ChangeLog.OLD http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/stow.git/tree/doc/ChangeLog... So probably?