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<!-- This manual describes GNU Stow version 2.3.2-fixbug56727
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(2 November 2023), a program for managing farms of symbolic links.
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Software and documentation is copyrighted by the following:
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© 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Bob Glickstein <bobg+stow@zanshin.com>
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© 2000, 2001 Guillaume Morin <gmorin@gnu.org>
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© 2007 Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson <kahlil@internode.on.net>
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© 2011 Adam Spiers <stow@adamspiers.org>
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<div class="chapter-level-extent" id="Terminology">
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Next: <a href="Invoking-Stow.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Invoking Stow</a>, Previous: <a href="Introduction.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Introduction</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h2 class="chapter" id="Terminology-1"><span>2 Terminology<a class="copiable-link" href="#Terminology-1"> ¶</a></span></h2>
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<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-package"></a>
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<p>A <em class="dfn">package</em> is a related collection of files and directories that
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you wish to administer as a unit — e.g., Perl or Emacs — and that needs
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to be installed in a particular directory structure — e.g., with
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<samp class="file">bin</samp>, <samp class="file">lib</samp>, and <samp class="file">man</samp> subdirectories.
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<p>A <em class="dfn">target directory</em> is the root of a tree in which one or more
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packages wish to <em class="emph">appear</em> to be installed. A common, but by no
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means the only such location is <samp class="file">/usr/local</samp>. The examples in this
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manual will use <samp class="file">/usr/local</samp> as the target directory.
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<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-stow-directory"></a>
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<p>A <em class="dfn">stow directory</em> is the root of a tree containing separate
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packages in private subtrees. When Stow runs, it uses the current
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directory as the default stow directory. The examples in this manual
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will use <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow</samp> as the stow directory, so that
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individual packages will be, for example, <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</samp>
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and <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/emacs</samp>.
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<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-installation-image"></a>
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<p>An <em class="dfn">installation image</em> is the layout of files and directories
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required by a package, relative to the target directory. Thus, the
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installation image for Perl includes: a <samp class="file">bin</samp> directory containing
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<samp class="file">perl</samp> and <samp class="file">a2p</samp> (among others); an <samp class="file">info</samp> directory
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containing Texinfo documentation; a <samp class="file">lib/perl</samp> directory containing
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Perl libraries; and a <samp class="file">man/man1</samp> directory containing man pages.
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<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-package-directory"></a>
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<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-package-name"></a>
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<p>A <em class="dfn">package directory</em> is the root of a tree containing the
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installation image for a particular package. Each package directory
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must reside in a stow directory — e.g., the package directory
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<samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</samp> must reside in the stow directory
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<samp class="file">/usr/local/stow</samp>. The <em class="dfn">name</em> of a package is the name of its
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directory within the stow directory — e.g., <samp class="file">perl</samp>.
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<p>Thus, the Perl executable might reside in
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<samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl/bin/perl</samp>, where <samp class="file">/usr/local</samp> is the
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target directory, <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow</samp> is the stow directory,
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<samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</samp> is the package directory, and
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<samp class="file">bin/perl</samp> within is part of the installation image.
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<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-symlink"></a>
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<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-relative-symlink"></a>
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<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-absolute-symlink"></a>
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<p>A <em class="dfn">symlink</em> is a symbolic link. A symlink can be <em class="dfn">relative</em> or
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<em class="dfn">absolute</em>. An absolute symlink names a full path; that is, one
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starting from <samp class="file">/</samp>. A relative symlink names a relative path; that
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is, one not starting from <samp class="file">/</samp>. The target of a relative symlink is
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computed starting from the symlink’s own directory. Stow only
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creates relative symlinks.
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