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- 6Is GNU Stow an option here? "GNU Stow is a program for managing the installation of software packages, keeping them separate (/usr/local/stow/emacs vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for example) while making them appear to be installed in the same place (/usr/local)."Mike Renfro– Mike Renfro2011-07-10 02:05:29 +00:00Commented Jul 10, 2011 at 2:05
- @Mike it looks very promising; I like the idea of enabling and disabling versions of programs seamlessly. Firstly how active and stable is the program and how often does a program break the prefix protocol?Will03uk– Will03uk2011-07-10 02:17:07 +00:00Commented Jul 10, 2011 at 2:17
- 1Ridiculously stable (1.3.2 dates to 1996, and 1.3.3 to 2002), and almost totally inactive. It's just a Perl script that manages symlinks. Way back in the day, it was a pain to get compilers and such bootstrapped into stow, but for end-user applications, it's been fine. I've used it for any application I couldn't easily backport from newer Debian releases, or get from one of the Solaris package repositories.Mike Renfro– Mike Renfro2011-07-10 14:34:44 +00:00Commented Jul 10, 2011 at 14:34
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