Re: [Stow-devel] [Info-stow] GNU Stow 2.2.2 released

[Jean Louis]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 09:58:02PM +0000, Adam Spiers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> GNU Stow 2.2.2 is now available for download from
> 
>  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/stow/
> 
> and also from the mirrors[1] as soon as they catch up.
> 
> Stow is a tool for managing the installation of multiple software
> packages to a shared run-time directory tree (e.g. /usr/local) via
> symlinks, whilst keeping the files from each package separate.  Whilst
> it has often been used to manage system-wide software installations,
> it also provides a clean mechanism for managing software and
> configuration files in users' home directories[2].  More information
> is available at the homepage:
> 
>    http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/

That is great tool, especially for source based operating systems. I
am using it in combination with the slashpackage file system hierarchy:
http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html - just for compatibility purposes.

Jean Louis