Homebrew

[Dan Ports]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:29:09AM +0100, Geoffroy Carrier wrote:
> Using symlinks is IMHO absolutely amazing. That's what alternatives
> systems (from Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora/Red Hat, the later being, I must
> precise for transparency, my employer) do when multiple
> implementations are available for the same tool, and extending that to
> versioning is actually what caught my eye as a brilliant design.

Isn't this the same as what MacPorts is doing with hard links and
port activate/deactivate? Or am I misunderstanding? (I couldn't find
much info about what they are doing with symlinks.)

Dan

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