🚀 go-pugleaf

eoliver@ralph.cs (Erik Oliver) writes:
> I just wanted to thank everyone for referring me to trn, after I 
> requested a test based newsreader.  This is just what we were
> looking for.
> 
> Erik
> (btw, the reader can be found at nova.cc.purdue.edu,
> /pub/next/2.0/binaries, trn.tar.)

I picked this up and tried it out quickly, only to have it choke on the  
number of newsgroups at RPI.  No big deal.  I just thought "Oh well...", and  
brought up the Installer to delete the package.

The package had installed some files into /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib,  
and /usr/local/man.  When I clicked on the "delete" button, it deleted those  
*directories*, instead of the files it had installed inside of them!!  

In my case those directories (the /usr/local/* ones) are just links off to  
other directories, so all that really happened was that the links were  
removed.  I recreated the links, and removed the files by hand.

So, the question is, was this a fault of this specific package, or is it  
that those links confused the Installer.app itself, such that the installer  
figured the link was a file (instead of a directory) so it just decided to  
delete the link?

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