Re: Symlinks on the stow directory

Adam Spiers <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:50:56 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.stow.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 04:23:40PM -0400, James Jong wrote:
> Say I have my package directories in different locations. Can I create
> symlinks in my stow directory to these  package directories and use stow as
> if they lived within the stow directory?
> 
> e.g. say I have previously built my package foo-bar under
> /path-to-foo-bar-built
> 
> and that I am using the following as my stow directory
> /path/to/stow_dir
> 
> and the following as my target directory for all my packages:
> ~/local/stow
> 
> Can I create a sym link:
> from /path/to/stow_dir/foo-bar
> to: /path-to-foo-bar-built
> 
> and use STOW as usual?

My brain is a bit too befuddled and jetlagged right now to know either
way, so I'd say just try it and see :-)