On Thu, 10 May 2007, Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> Danek Duvall wrote:
>> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:23:40AM -1000, Joseph Kowalski wrote:
>>
>> 
>>> Opinion: If the user community and maintainers don't expect such links,
>>> we only potentially complicate our future by adding them.  Don't do it.
>>> 
>> 
>> Well, a couple of samples:
>>
>>   - gentoo has a link from tclsh/wish to their versioned counterparts.
>>   - fedora core 3 does, too
>>   - it looks like ubuntu does as well (judging from the tclsh post-install
>>     script)
>> 
>> Danek
>> 
> OK, my premise was wrong (based only on what Dermot had typed).  (Well, we 
> could get lost in distro vs. community vs. maintainers.)  If this is a fairly 
> wide 
> practice,

I think it is.

> go for it.

+1

Eric

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