080518 Stefan Caunter wrote: > I don't like this idea. > The last time I did not mention anything about this kind of change > /usr/local/lib got changed to /usr/local/etc for lynx.cfg.
That's a very different issue: that changed a regular dir name, this prevents a newly unpacked tar file clobbering an existing dir. > For me, this would create all kinds of directories I don't want. Not all kinds, only one each time you upgrade & you can easily remove the earlier ones, if you don't want to keep them. > Changing this alters one of the earliest steps in an upgrade. > Since the development version is inevitably the best version available, > always recommended for any fix and is always rock solid, > keeping the directory named for the major version number makes sense. No, there have been cases where the latest dev version had a bug, which took a short time to get fixed, so that the previous version needed to continue being used in the meantime. In any case, it is generally a bad practice to remove an older version of anything before making sure the new version works correctly (yes, i know Gentoo's 'emerge' does exactly that, but you can still tell it to re-install the previous one if necessary & the Gentoo system software is doing all the work for you). What happens at present is that an unwitting or forgetful user unpacks the tar file & it overwrites files with the same name, adds those with new names & leaves in place those which have been dropped. You end up with a mixed-up dir which is useless & you have to (re)move it & go thro' the tar step again. If each new tar file is taken from a differently-named dir, then each new version creates its own new dir on the user's machine, everything is kept separate & the user can decide what to delete himself. This seems to be the regular practice with other downloaded tars IIRC: can you cite an exception ? So I continue to ask for the change (smile). -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
