Password and RH 6.1

James Thompson jamest at math.ksu.edu
Fri Mar 31 00:11:30 EST 2000


> 
> I have come to the conclusion that on a package managed system like RH, 
> any software that does not live in a user's own directories, should 
> always be built and installed as packages.  

As an alternative you can use Stow (http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/).  
It's simple to use and lets you avoid the IMHO nightmare of
non-relocatable RPMs.  Real nice if you want to install, say GNOME, on an
NFS mounted /usr/local and share it among workstations.

James

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