[ale] File System for Newbs

[Dylan Northrup]

A long time ago, (28.07.09), in a galaxy far, far away, Ed Cashin wrote:

:=A nice alternative to manipulating $PATH or other shell
:=things for each package is to use symlinks in /opt/bin and
:=/opt/man.
:=
:=  $ su
:=  # cd /opt/bin
:=  # file foo
:=  foo: symbolic link to ../foo-1.2.2/bin/foo
:=  # rm foo
:=  # ln -s ../foo-1.2.3/bin/foo
:=  # cd ../man/1
:=  # rm foo.1
:=  # ln -s ../../foo-1.2.3/share/man/1/foo.1
:=
:=It's usually not too hard to use shell loops with "find" to handle
:=multiple files.

There was a program I used a decade ago named 'depot' which did this sort of
management for you.

-- 
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