Re: GNU System Explanation

[Tom Bachmann]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    > The goal is to make package installation and removal as easy as cp and rm.
>
>    Do you mean *copying* package.tar.gz into /packages should install the 
>    package? or you mean *extracting* the package.tar.gz into /packages?
>
> It could.  But the normal practise for now would be to make a link
> from /packages into /stow.
>
> /packages is simply a container directory for packages, it could be
> anything.  /stow is where you either create a symbolic link or copy
> the package, to install it.

What I do not yet understand, how do things like automatic updates, 
automatic installation of dependencies etc. work in this scheme?
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