From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2860 invoked from network); 28 Oct 1999 03:32:07 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 28 Oct 1999 03:32:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 13413 invoked by alias); 28 Oct 1999 03:32:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8464 Received: (qmail 13393 invoked from network); 28 Oct 1999 03:32:00 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <991028033118.ZM4099@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 03:31:18 +0000 In-Reply-To: <28101999.1@sanctum.jae> Comments: In reply to "Juergen A. Erhard" "Re: PATCH: 3.1.6 install without rebuild (Re: 3.0 DESTDIR)" (Oct 28, 3:58am) References: <991019052248.ZM4198@candle.brasslantern.com> <991019061342.ZM4317@candle.brasslantern.com> <19991023204554.A31639@dman.com> <991024015558.ZM1246@candle.brasslantern.com> <19991024010545.A1872@dman.com> <991024062032.ZM1682@candle.brasslantern.com> <19991024103020.A5395@dman.com> <991024175838.ZM6757@candle.brasslantern.com> <28101999.1@sanctum.jae> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: "Juergen A. Erhard" Subject: Re: PATCH: 3.1.6 install without rebuild (Re: 3.0 DESTDIR) Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Oct 28, 3:58am, Juergen A. Erhard wrote: } Subject: Re: PATCH: 3.1.6 install without rebuild (Re: 3.0 DESTDIR) } } Also according to stow.texi, it's for keeping files from different } packages apart, nothing more, nothing less. [...] } } Of course you can *use* it for what you describe ;-) (And maybe that } was depot's intended use). I find this amusing, considering that I've sat no more than twelve feet from Bob Glickstein almost every working day for the past seven years. Yes, I know what he wrote in stow.texi, but trust me when I say that I also know exactly what stow's author uses stow for! As for whether it's "based on" depot ... the perl script was "depot.pl" for the first four years of its life, right up until Bob decided it had to be called something else if he was going to release it through FSF. However, this now has absolutely nothing to do with zsh, so to make this at least slightly topical: I'll be offline from tomorrow through the weekend, so with the exception of a couple of messages tonight I probably won't be answering any zsh mail until Tuesday. Don't pile the patches too deep in the meantime ... -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com