On Fri, Apr 05, 2002, Christoph Schug wrote:
> adjusted version of foo
> [...]
> -If you consider some day to upgrade to C<foo-0.8.16> just
> +If you consider some day to upgrade to C<foo-1.5.3> just
> repeat the installation in the same way, alter the symlink
> -I<prefix>C</local/PKG/foo> to point to C<foo-0.8.16> instead and re-run
> +I<prefix>C</local/PKG/foo> to point to C<foo-1.5.3> instead and re-run
> C<lsync> again. C<lsync> will automatically update symlinks upon
> activation, creating new links if required and remove outdated dangling
> ones. As you might already guess, it is as easy to go back to the old
What magic number is 1.5.3? If you dislike 0.8.15, perhaps you want to
use something like 0.7.42 which at least contains two magic numbers (the
generally magic 7 and the D.Adams's 42). But IMHO 1.5.3 reads ugly,
especially because its three times an odd number... So I recommend to
use 0.7.42.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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