Re: [Help-stow] Symlinks on the stow directory

[James Jong]

Thank you Adam, It seems to be working fine so far.

James

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Adam Spiers <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 04:23:40PM -0400, James Jong wrote:
> Say I have my package directories in different locations. Can I create
> symlinks in my stow directory to these  package directories and use stow as
> if they lived within the stow directory?
>
> e.g. say I have previously built my package foo-bar under
> /path-to-foo-bar-built
>
> and that I am using the following as my stow directory
> /path/to/stow_dir
>
> and the following as my target directory for all my packages:
> ~/local/stow
>
> Can I create a sym link:
> from /path/to/stow_dir/foo-bar
> to: /path-to-foo-bar-built
>
> and use STOW as usual?

My brain is a bit too befuddled and jetlagged right now to know either
way, so I'd say just try it and see :-)