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Re: [Bug-stow] stow -D fails in /proc


From: Guillaume Morin
Subject: Re: [Bug-stow] stow -D fails in /proc
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:28:41 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.28i

Hi Jan,

Dans un message du 10 jun à 23:49, Jan Echternach écrivait :
> I think Stow shouldn't enter /proc.  I don't know the reason why Stow
> looks into every directory, but it would be much faster if it only
> looked into subdirectories also present in the package directory, or
> if it traversed the package directory instead of the target directory.
> A simpler solution could be to use some kind of stow.exclude file.

An exclude option will be added soon by a contributor. We plan to add a
fast delete which would avoid this problem. But, trust me, the default
-D behavior is that way for some good reasons :-)

Regards,

-- 
Guillaume Morin <address@hidden>

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