On 29 Sep 2009, Lennart Poettering outgrape: > (Btw, I use stow myself. and if configure detects a /usr/local/stow > directory it will install itself there automatically) That's why I thought you'd probably apply it :) for a 'house of cards built on symlinks' very few changes are needed: something like five packages across the whole system need changes beyond the DESTDIR/prefix= support that every package needs if distros aren't to laugh at it anyway.