On 10/3/18 4:45 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I noticed a fair number of new Linux users have trouble with stale > program caches. Users install a package from a package manager or > sources and then are confused when the new package is not used. They > do not realize they need to run 'bash -r'; and most don't know where > to begin searching.
OK, let's consider this. There are three cases: 1. A new program gets installed with the same name as an existing one, in the same directory. 2. A new program gets installed with the same name, but in a different directory in $PATH (and before the existing one). 3. A new program gets installed with a new name. (I'm putting aside the program deletion case.) You're saying that the seond scenario is most common, and common enough that we should develop a complex solution for it? I'd have to see more data before I'd accept that. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/