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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Grep 2.4 uploaded
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From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Date: 28 Jan 2000 09:49:11 +0200
In-Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:52:32 +0200 (IST)"
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

> Nowadays, we do have a `man' clone that knows about the `man'
> hierarchy.  However, if a new port would unzip the man pages into a
> different directory, the old version of the man pages will be left
> behind, and the user could see stale docs.  So, whenever the previous
> port had its man pages inside `info', the new one puts them into
> `info' as well.

Is that really an adequate reason?  IMHO, the users should be adviced
to uninstall the old version before installing the new one, rather than
helping them to get away with not reading the instructions. ;-)

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/