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-*- outline -*-
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* Autodetect "foreign" stow directories
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* Fix empty-dir problem (see "Known bugs" in the manual)
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* Traverse links in the target tree?
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From e-mail with meyering@na-net.ornl.gov:
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> My /usr/local/info equivalent is a symlink to /share/info
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> because I want installs on all systems to put info files in that
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> directory. With that set-up, stow chokes on fact that
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> /usr/local/info is a symlink.
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[...] Stow is designed to be paranoid about modifying anything it
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doesn't "own." If it finds a symlink in the target tree (e.g.,
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/usr/local/info) which doesn't point into the stow tree, its
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paranoid response is to leave it the hell alone. But I can see in
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this case how traversing the link and populating the directory on
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the far end would be OK. Question: is that a special
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circumstance, or would it always be OK to populate the far end of
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a symlink in the target tree (when the symlink points to a
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directory in a context where a directory is needed)? And: if it's
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a special circumstance requiring a command-line option, should the
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option be a mere boolean (such as, "--traverse-target-links") or
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should it be an enumeration of which links are OK to traverse
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(such as, "--traversable='info man doc'")?
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* Develop a mechanism for sharing files between packages.
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This would solve the problem of maintaining N platform-specific copies
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of a package, all of which have many platform-*independent* files
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which could be shared, such as man pages, info files, etc.
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* Option to ignore certain files in the stow tree.
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For example, --ignore='*~ .#*' (skip Emacs and CVS backup files).
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* Option to ignore links in the stow tree to certain places.
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For example, --ignore-link='/*' (skip absolute links).
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