[19725] in Athena Bugs
Re: new netscape does bad things
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Aug 29 14:35:50 2001
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:35:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, John Hawkinson wrote:
> For what it is worth, I must say, I continue to think that this
> directive to "rm -rf .netscape/cache" is an excellent way to cause
> users to hurt themselves a lot.
Yeah, probably.
There have been a number of comments about changing this, and I forget
why I haven't put any of them in yet (no, it hasn't just been sheer
laziness!) I would have to go through my mail files to refresh my memory,
but I seem to remember that there was a reason we didn't just make the
script remove the cache directory without giving the user the chance to
screw it up. I just don't remember what the reason was at the moment.
At any rate, in an ideal world, the user seldom if ever SEES that message.
Supposedly, you go cradle-to-grave in this setup without Netscape ever
getting a chance to write cache files locally, and I think that for most
users this is indeed the case. The people who are most likely to see that
message, in other words, are the people who are always tinkering - with
their prefs, with bleeding-edge stuff, and so on. Thus the people who get
that instruction are the ones most equipped to deal with it correctly.
That's the theory, anyway. I'll go back and look into my issue files again
and see what's what.
