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<link rel="prev" href="Mixing-Operations.html#Mixing-Operations" title="Mixing Operations">
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<link rel="next" href="Target-Maintenance.html#Target-Maintenance" title="Target Maintenance">
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This manual describes GNU Stow version 2.2.2
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(9 November 2015), a program for managing the installation of software
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packages.
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Software and documentation is copyrighted by the following:
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(C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Bob Glickstein <bobg+stow@zanshin.com>
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(C) 2000, 2001 Guillaume Morin <gmorin@gnu.org>
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(C) 2007 Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson <kahlil@internode.on.net>
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(C) 2011 Adam Spiers <stow@adamspiers.org>
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Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
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notice are preserved on all copies.
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permission notice identical to this one.
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Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Target-Maintenance.html#Target-Maintenance">Target Maintenance</a>,
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Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Mixing-Operations.html#Mixing-Operations">Mixing Operations</a>,
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Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a>
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<h2 class="chapter">9 Multiple Stow Directories</h2>
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<p>If there are two or more system administrators who wish to maintain
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software separately, or if there is any other reason to want two or more
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stow directories, it can be done by creating a file named <samp><span class="file">.stow</span></samp>
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in each stow directory. The presence of <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/foo/.stow</span></samp>
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informs Stow that, though <samp><span class="file">foo</span></samp> is not the current stow
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directory, even if it is a subdirectory of the target directory,
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nevertheless it is <em>a</em> stow directory and as such Stow
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doesn't “own” anything in it (see <a href="Installing-Packages.html#Installing-Packages">Installing Packages</a>). This will
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protect the contents of <samp><span class="file">foo</span></samp> from a ‘<samp><span class="samp">stow -D</span></samp>’, for instance.
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<p>When multiple stow directories share a target tree, if a tree-folding
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symlink is encountered and needs to be split open during an
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installation, as long as the top-level stow directory into which the
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existing symlink points contains <samp><span class="file">.stow</span></samp>, Stow knows how to split
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open the tree in the correct manner.
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