Re: Software/HD ecology

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Why not just extend automake to support an install-stow target that
installs packages in $(prefix)/package/PACKAGE/VERSION by default?

Then one can use stow to install the package, remove the symlinks it
created.  And remove the whole package with a simple rm.  One can also
extened automake to support installing an .depend file that lists
possible dependecies.  Programs can then use this to calculate if the
program will work or not.  And on GNU/Hurd a package translator could
read this file and "install" them in /.

Enough rambling for one day. ;)