[Stow-devel] Installing Software

[Jason Self]

I've been looking at GNU Stow and considering how it might function within 
the context of the full GNU Operating System.

If I understand the documentation correctly GNU Stow is geared toward 
binary packages and that those packages must somehow already exist 
within the stow directory in order to be able to install them?

If there were ever an official release of the GNU Operating System how 
would those packages get there? Should the GNU Installer (which doesn't 
seem to exist yet) put GNU packages into the stow directory so that 
they're then in an installable state? That seems like it would be a waste 
of space just to have a GNU package be "available."

Maybe there should be mechanism for retrieving the desired packages (from 
somewhere, perhaps over the internet and/or from the install media) and 
dropping them into the stow directory?

What about the source code? It might be nice if there were an easy way to 
change, say, the configure flags that were used to create the binary so 
that some features could be enabled/disabled/changed/whatever.

Just some thoughts. Thanks for listening.

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