[56] in Athena User Interface
Re: librep requires libgdbm, and it's not in the tree
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu May 18 19:49:42 2000
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Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 19:49:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
CC: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200005182114.RAA09379@alice-whacker.mit.edu>
Excerpts from mail: 18-May-100 Re: librep requires libgdbm.. Richard
Tibbetts@MIT.EDU (578)
> The primary implication is that people who maintain the same home
> directory between Athena and not-quite-Athena platforms will be screwed
> in new and interesting ways.
> Maybe we don't care. Maybe the subs could be built to check for this, or
> to use a different database name.
Remember, with Layered Athena, and the soon to be worked on unbundled
AFS package, the number of folks who have a home dir not-quite-Athena
may increase substantially in the next year.
By thinking about this harder, can we make the problem go away?
-wdc
