From: Jun Hamano (junio@twinsun.com)
Date: 01/04/93


From: junio@twinsun.com (Jun Hamano)
Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:12:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.131232.8671@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za> Philip Machanick <philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za> writes:

   How about the opposite: install the file in the target directory,
   and keep a sym link to it in /packages/xxx ?

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?