[MPlayer-users] SuperBit DVD

[Konstantin Isakov]

On 14 May 2002 14:24:36 -0400
"Nix N. Nix" <nix at go-nix.ca> wrote:

> My policy is to always stick an app into it's own tree - that is, app
> "xyzzy" goes into /usr/xyzzy.  This way, if the app is well - behaved,
> there'll be
> 
> /usr/xyzzy/bin/*
> /usr/xyzzy/lib/*
> /usr/xyzzy/share/*

> Further, if I want to uninstall the app, all I have to do is rm -rf
> /usr/xyzzy and I can rest assured that the app is gone, gone, gone,
> without having left a single stray .so in my system-wide lib dirs.
> 
> Further still, if I want to test different versions of the app, I can
> simply do:
> 
> mv /usr/xyzzy /usr/xyzzy-current
> make install <- the new version I want to test
> mv /usr/xyzzy /usr/xyzzy-new
> ln -s /usr/xyzzy-new /usr/xyzzy

[.skip.]

What you are doing by hand is pretty well automated and is called 'stow'.
Try it, and you'll stick to it :)

And of course, --prefix is for ./configure only. With stow, it will look like --prefix=/usr/local/stow/mplayer

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