Re: [Evolution] new oaf problem ?

["Michael Leone" <turgon mike-leone com>]

> its harmful because oaf-slay will kill any process using oafd. Right now
> that isnt much but soon alot of other programs will be moving to it.
> Alot of time i'll be in the middle of writing an email while Nautilus is
> updating, now if the the rpm/deb's ran there oaf-slay scripts after it
> was done installing, evolution would die (even tho i'm updating nautilus
> and all my work would be lost. Once the APIs stablize, running oaf-slay
> and rm old orbit files will be less frequent. rm'ing the t/mp/orbit*
> files, while i havent had to do this and update nautilus/evolution
> everyday, would have a similar effect on programs using ORBit.

This presumes that you don't close any application that is using oaf before
updating it. Or that there can't be an pre-install script that senses that
oaf is currently in use (somehow), and tells you to exit all apps first.

It's always good practice to close all apps before updating system-level
components, such as oaf and ORBit.

> On 06 Feb 2001 17:25:52 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Le 2001.02.06 16:54:40 +0100, Alec Peden a écrit :
> > > Evolution snapshots are not meant to be used my end-users. The
> preview
> > > releases arent even targeted towards end-users. If you want a
> "smoother
> > > upgrade path", I'd suggest waiting til 1.0 is completed. Evolution
> is
> > > based on RAPIDLY changing libs that  wont be apart of GNOME til 1.4
> > > which is over a month away. Evolution has a disclaimer everytime you
> > > open it up for a reason.
> >
> > That's fine, and I understand it very well. This doen't exclude a
> possible
> > enhancement of the way oafd (and others) is upgraded, which is IMO
> > currently user-unfriendly. Someday, Evo will have to get rid of its
> > comfortable "I'm broken" disclaimer.
> > I don't understand why the oafd package can't just do a rm -Tf
> /tmp/orbit*
> > and killall oafd right now. Is it harmful ?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Xav
>
>
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