Re: gnome-common patch

[Colin Walters <walters debian org>]

On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 03:48, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Great, thanks, that patch looks much better than my hacky attempt :)
> 
> gnome-vfs already got 2 bug reports (#106682 and #106602) about
> configure failing. These were due to the new gnome-common being
> installed on top of a previous installation.
> Do you think it would be possible to clean up
> $prefix/share/aclocal/gnome2-macros before installing gnome-common to
> prevent this kind of problems ?

Personally, I think that's the job of a real packaging system.  It's not
really reasonable to expect 'make install' to solve all upgrade issues.