[gobolinux-users] Another /Programs folder

[Carlo Calica]

On 3/8/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
>
> Well, you can keep a tree with symlinks for that. Just create a
> wrapper around Compile/InstallPackage so that after each compilation a
> symlink to the installed entry is created under /PersonalPrograms, for
> example. In the end you'll have something like:
>
> /PersonalPrograms/Audacious -> /Programs/Audacious
> /PersonalPrograms/JACK -> /Programs/JACK
> ...
>

Actually you don't need to write a wrapper.  About two years ago I
added support for a goboInstall env variable.  Just 'export
goboInstall="/PersonalPrograms"' and the standard tools will install
your packages there with a symlink tying it together.  It may have
suffered bit rot   over the years because I stopped testing it.  No
one else seemed interested.

Bug reports would be appreciated.  I think this functionality is
useful enough to maintain.

-- 
Carlo J. Calica