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Interesting. I tend to just build stuff myself from source and use GNU stow. I'm amazed I hear so little about stow, it's so useful. I just configure with a p
by yangyang 17y ago
Interesting.
I tend to just build stuff myself from source and use GNU stow. I'm amazed I hear so little about stow, it's so useful.
I just configure with a prefix arg of something like /usr/local/stow/package-version, then use stow to install in /usr/local/{bin,etc,lib} etc. etc. Works equally well in one's home directory, which is what I used to do at work.
- mxcl 17y agoHeh, it's handy I didn't know about this, or I might never have started Homebrew. Still at this point our ambitions are quite vast, so I expect Homebrew will prove more useful in the long run.
- yangyang 17y agoI'm sure it will. I'm generally only installing fairly small packages, with bigger stuff the stow method would probably get tiresome.