On 10/19/09 03:46, dick hoogendijk wrote:
Install thunderbird 3.0b4 where it's supposed to: in /opt
Absolutely! I don't know why it has to be in /usr/lib. But what makes you think it isn't in /opt? If you simply replace the links in /usr/bin, it should work in /opt, but the gnome menu links seem not to work any more and clicking on a URL in an email behaves inconsistently. Who wants to go and edit every desktop, or waste disk space with two versions antway? So it is much easier just to replace the default install with a newer one. I gave up installing it and Firefox in /opt several releases ago. Putting everything in /usr/lib is IMO an ugly Linuxism that seems to be insidiously creeping in but I suspect it is too late to fight it :-(
No big deal, but is there any way to avoid this?
Since the image-update seems to rewrite the links in /usr/bin, you still have to fix it if you have the more current version in /opt. I guess my question was really about how pkg does version checking and why it overwrote a much newer version in this case. Cheers -- Frank _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
