[1686] in testers
Re: /usr/new/lib
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Aug 1 00:34:51 1991
From: lwvanels@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 91 00:34:54 -0400
To: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [1678]
Reply-To: lwvanels@MIT.EDU
>I don't believe /usr/new/lib is referenced by anything which is copied
>local by mkserv. Files and directories referenced only by programs
>that live on the SRVD do not need compatibility links.
The goal is not to make sure that the programs on the systems packs work,
but also to make sure that explicit paths in people's dotfiles (or
Makefiles, or any number of other places) will continue to work in this
release on the BSD platforms. If we leave out some compatability symlinks
because we know that `no user could possibly ever reference these, and no
one would ever have made their own private copies', we are just leaving
ourselves open to problems when we inevitably encounter the user who has
done just that. By being fully compatably, we avoid this problem; the cost
of extra symlinks to do this should not be exceedingly large.
