[arch-general] install packages using links?

Andrei Thorp garoth at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 20:29:54 EDT 2009


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:32 PM, clemens
fischer<ino-news at spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> wrote:
> Andrei Thorp wrote:
>
>> Well, as far as I can tell, the problem is that this requires the
>> updating of the 4050 packages we have at the moment. All of them. By
>> hand. For rather limited gain.
>
> Well, you don't get it as far as I can tell.  As all paths stay the
> same, _not one single package_ has to be updated.  That's what I mean
> with "compatible".  "/usr/bin/file" is still "/usr/bin/file", but it
> could be a symlink instead of a file.  Look at the .so libraries:

Okay, but how do those links get to the places they're supposed to be
if you don't update packages to put them there?

Anyway, I think there is a widely echoed polite "decent idea if we
didn't already have all we need. No thank you".

Cheers,

-AT


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