[2580] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: More 5.2 preparation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Feb 11 10:54:41 1999
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 11 Feb 1999 10:54:13 -0500
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of Thu, 11 Feb 1999 02:35:16 EST
Well, I've removed 'netscape' from the comps file and I've put it in
its own 'RedHat Netscape' component. Should we do the same with other
ones, like lynx, etc.? How about mail apps?
-derek
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> > (I think Irix comes with netscape in /usr/bin. And that's 50% of
> > the Athena supported platforms. :-)
>
> IRIX ships a /usr/bin/X11/netscape, and a few programs even have that
> path hardcoded. It's a real pain for us because users get a slightly
> different netscape program which plays with the same files in their
> homedir as the Athena version but doesn't do all the nice Athena
> things like set up a cache in /var/tmp. Plus it tends to be a
> different version. So the release tracks over /usr/bin/X11/netscape
> with an attach-and-run script for the infoagents locker. (People can
> run the native version as /os/usr/bin/X11/netscape if they really want
> to.)
>
> I'd advise against installing the native netscape, at least not
> without hacking things somehow to make it install under a different
> name.
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