Re: Gconf glitch
- From: "R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog linuxhall org>
- To: Peter Williams <peter newton cx>
- Cc: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>, Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>, Gnome 2 List <gnome-2-0-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Gconf glitch
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 08:30:36 +0800 (HKT)
On 4 Oct 2001, Peter Williams wrote:
> > I think having outcome depend on install order would be totally
> > broken, I'm not guessing anyone will advocate it for long...
>
> Maybe make a rule that the symlink always points to the most recent
> installed version, so the postinstall would have a little test to update
> the link only if it points to an older version of the tool. The result
> will be consistent regardless of installation order, and it makes sense
> to me.
This is true if and only if older version and newer version of the same
tool are compatible with each other and are doing exactly the same thing...
Abel
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