Re: Suggestion for Common Third Party Install system

From: Nicos Gollan (gtdev_at_spearhead.de)
Date: 08/16/03

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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 14:53:20 +0200

    On Saturday 16 August 2003 14:48, Edward Murrell wrote:
    > The 'Applications' folder is accessible from the users Control panel as
    > a special directory, allowing write access with sudo and the root
    > password. The folder itself would most likely sit in somewhere like
    > /usr/local/Applications/. Thus, our application 'Foo', would be in
    > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/. It's file structure would look something
    > like this:
    >
    > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/
    > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/icon.svg
    > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/description.en.txt
    > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/linux/i686/usr/bin/foo
    > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/linux/i686/usr/lib/foo/libfoo.so
    > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/install/etc/foo/foo.conf
    > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/home/.foo/
    >
    > To install, symlinks from are made from /usr/bin/foo and /usr/lib/foo/
    > and /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/linux/i686/usr/lib/foo/ to
    > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/linux/i686/usr/bin/foo, and to
    > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/usr/lib/foo/. A copy of
    > /usr/local/Applications/Foo/install/etc/foo/foo.conf is made to /etc/,
    > so that changes made to the configuration do not affect the original
    > files of the program.

    This sounds awfully like an extended version of stow. It'd be nice to see
    that. 

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