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I've used stow to manage installs under /use/local before, which seems like a slightly easier approach. It does something similar but manages the install as a s
by cdjk 12y ago
I've used stow to manage installs under /use/local before, which seems like a slightly easier approach. It does something similar but manages the install as a series of symlinks from /usr/local/bin to /usr/local/stow/<packagename>/bin.
It's pretty easy to setup and works the same on any distro.
- SkyMarshal 12y agoI tried stow a while back too but there was something I didn't like about it, but can't remember. It might have been that stow only supports a single version of each package or something, less flexibility in putting version no in the paths, maybe?