[2590] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: More 5.2 preparation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Fri Feb 12 01:37:47 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 01:37:30 -0500
To: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[2576] in SIPB_Linux_Development"
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Emil wrote:
having netscape in /usr/bin will override the infoagents one,
meaning they lose all the (nice) infoagents setup.
Greg wrote:
users get a slightly different netscape program which
doesn't do all the nice Athena things like set up a cache
in /var/tmp...
I disagree. Once you run netscape-fix, your dotfiles are set up so
that your cache will be in /var/tmp, your movemail program and
mime.types file will be in /mit/infoagents, etc., whether you run
netscape from the infoagents locker or the local disk.
And the infoagents netscape doesn't even run netscape-fix. It just
suggests that you do it.
Still, I guess it's better to tell users to run netscape-fix then to
not tell them, so I withdraw my comment that netscape should be in the
default installation.
Sal.
