On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 11:25:41PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > /usr# mv doc share/doc/usrdoc
> > /usr# ln -s /usr/share/doc/usrdoc doc
> >
> > dpkg would deal with that and the docs would all be under /usr/share/doc
> > (though not /usr/share/doc/${PACKAGE}) which makes things still not as
> > ?legant as they should be.
>
> How is that usefull at all? All you've done is move from a well known old
> location to a poorly known new location, all the tools expecting things in
> one location still break.
It makes things like the problem with apache much easier to fix. It still
requires other things be modified to look for packages in both places, but
we have to do that now.
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<joeyh> netgod: er, are these 2.2.0 packages 2.0.0pre9 or do you have a
direct line with the gods?
<netgod> joeyh: i have the direct line
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