Re: Another suggestion for next major release

Hi Patrik,

> If you follow those principles when installing software, removing it
> is simple: just "rm -rf" the program's directory under /usr/local, and
> then clean out the symlinks from bin, man, etc.
> 
> (Easily done with the "symlinks" program. If your distro doesn't have
> it, it's available on ibiblio:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/)

Using GNU Stow makes this even easier.

    ./configure && make && make prefix=/usr/local/stow/tar-1.13.25
    cd /usr/local/stow && stow tar-1.13.25
    :
    : time passes
    :
    cd /usr/local/stow && stow -D tar-1.13.25
    stow tar-1.13.27

It detects conflicts, etc.  And doesn't have a database or anything like
that to go wrong, the symlinks themselves are sufficient.

Cheers,


Ralph.