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- From: junio@twinsun.com (Jun Hamano)
- Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
- In-Reply-To: Philip Machanick's message of Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:12:32 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:12:40 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.131232.8671@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za> Philip Machanick <philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za> writes:
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- How about the opposite: install the file in the target directory,
- and keep a sym link to it in /packages/xxx ?
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- You can do the same thing with a text file per each package
- describing what was installed where, just as SLS is doing. Why
- waste inodes?
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