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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jake Wetzel)
Wed Aug 10 06:55:12 1994
To: cfields@MIT.EDU
Cc: marc@MIT.EDU, yandros@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 06:54:50 EDT
From: Jake Wetzel <jawetzel@MIT.EDU>
First I would like to say that x11 was only an example. I think at one time or
another, most packages on Athena have two or more versions available at one
time or another (Matlab comes to mind).
As to whether different versions of the same package should have the same
mountpoint -- that's another story. The fact is currently they do.
No machine can be perfectly clean, but in this instance I think that Athena
could do a better job of cleaning up. If Athena does not act, I will do the
cleanup in my own personal dotfiles. The question is should I have to.
I realize that cleaning up will take some amount of time and that would delay
logging on for the next user. Of course restarting the X server isn't exactly
measured in nanoseconds.
I think that every subsequent release should be an improvement of the last.
I think cleaning up the mountpoints would be an improvement. I think now is
the time to implement since you perform some cleanup on logout anyway.
Jake
