Re: Managing /usr/local

[Daniel Elenius <danel698@student.liu.se>]

Gary L. Hennigan writes:
>What's the name of the software that helps you keep track of what's
>getting installed in /usr/local when you install a non-Debianized
>piece of software yourself? Something akin to the Win98 uninstall
>utility. I believe you simply run it after doing a "make install", or
>similar, and it scans the specified directories for any files that may
>have been installed. It keeps a database of these so that you can
>easily uninstall whatever it is.

I use 'stow'. It doesn't work quite like you describe, but it's very
good. Check it out.

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