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?