- From: <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:59:08 +0100
- To: Don Croyle <croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us>
- cc: www-amaya@w3.org
In-reply-to: Your message of 14 Jan 1999 23:14:28 -0500."
<86pv8h18bf.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us>
> Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr writes:
>
> > In-reply-to: Your message of 14 Jan 1999 00:59:21 -0500."
> > <86r9sy1jk6.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us>
> >
> > > I think that it should be AmayaPage,html. With the following patch it
> > > installs properly. The move from $prefix/share/thot to $prefix/thot
> > > is welcome, but I question the need to rm -rf the old directory.
> >
> > Normally a new install should remove the old one.
>
> An uninstall should attempt to remove the files it installed. An
> install should not make any assumptions about the environment it is
> going into. Casually removing a complete directory tree is a bad idea
> in either case, since you have no way of knowing what files may have
> been added. For example, I had the english dictionary installed.
> Having it deleted is no big deal, since I still have the distfile, but
> what if I had local working files in there?
Sorry, I just wanted to clean up the place in this release after the move from
$prefix/share/thot to $prefix/thot. Install won't delete anything in next
release.
Regards
Irene.
Received on Friday, 15 January 1999 02:59:12 UTC