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Re:Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles by slavik81 on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @08:47PM (#8490975)
I have no desire to use this for dotfiles, but GNU Stow sounds like it solves a real problem for me with the programs I install from source. Being able to uninstall without manually tracking down each file would be wonderful.
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Re:Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles by mw42 on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @09:10PM (#8491052)
For installation from source I use CheckInstall [1]. It will keep track of all the files created during a make install, and create a standard deb or rpm package that can then be installed and removed by the distribution's package manager.

[1] http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/docs/README

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