[17687] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.3.29: emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Mar 19 17:36:14 2000
Message-Id: <200003192236.RAA16106@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 2000 14:51:38 EST."
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 17:36:10 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I think that was the problem; I'm not on a linux box now but
> examining my dotfiles it looks like /usr/bin would precede
> /usr/athena/bin in my path on linux.
This puts you in the "basically on your own" category of users.
(Meaning, you're welcome to submit bug reports and such, but we won't
feel too guilty that things break for you.)
> Maybe /usr/bin/emacs should be removed, like the other software that
> duplicates or conflicts with athena software.
We don't remove all packages which duplicates Athena software, just
packages which violate the expectations of users with proper paths.
