On 04:22 04 Aug 2002, Sven Guckes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | let's see - i need a different shell setup for each | of my mutt binaries,
No, JUST ONE that peers at $0. If you're doing the shell wrapper thing. Just make links. | and for each of the systems. | now, if i follow this for every program i have.. Only the ones where you _really_ maintain several production versions. | that would be.. *punch* *punch* *punch* | something above a thousand different versions. | just *why* do i *still* think this is a silly idea? Suit yourself. Works for me. The workload is VERY SMALL. | Sven [wondering what package maintainers think about this idea. | can you say "dependecy"? well - i thought you could!] Most package maintainers don't need to consider multiple versions. That's what --prefix is for - to save them the trouble of second guessing the system maintainer. I do this "--prefix for each version" thing for several packages. None of the package authors know anything about it - provided they honour --prefix or some similar install prefix string, IT JUST WORKS. I'm basicly saying here that it can be made to work, with the current stuff, without extra effort on theauthor end. Whether you _want_ to make that effort for your users is your call, but saying it's silly merely means you don't want to make the effort and will live with inaccurate man pages. Some of us don't like that idea very much. We would _like_ to be able to install multiple, _accurate_ man pages. _We_ will handle keeping them separate/accessible for our users. We ask only that _you_ make it possibly to _generate_ an accurate man page. As long as it goes in the _current_ place w.r.t the install prefix, _we_ can do the rest. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ As long as you're willing to distract people with odd host names, the British Indian Ocean Territory appears to be a safe bet; unlike .cv, .cm, and .vg, there is still no name service for .io, making it ripe for fictional hosts. According to my almanac, it contains the Chagos Archipelago, with a surface area of 23 square miles and no civilian population whatsoever, although both the UK and the US "maintain a military presence". Presumably any computers it contains will be in .mil or .uk. - Elizabeth Zwicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
