Re: [evolution-patches] Version independent desktop/keys file

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

Is there any particular reason to not go ahead and remove the parallel
installability bits for everything else too? Doing it for just the
desktop and mime types stuff (which we should probably dump at some
point anyway, since the keys/mime files aren't used any longer, that
I know of), pretty much means that we are going to break it. This means
that if a user installs unstable evolution, the menuitem for the stable
version, will get replaced for the menuitem for the unstable version,
and the user won't be able to launch the stable version from the menus
any longer. And, they probably aren't going to be able to use it
reliably anyway.

It would be nice to do all or none, and not be stuck somewhere in the
middle.

-- dobey


On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 21:53 +0530, Harish Krishnaswamy wrote:
> The attached patch allows installing desktop/keys/mime files with
> version independent names. This also obviates  panel/menu launchers
> breaking after upgrades, by pointing to a version-neutral symlink .
> Kindly review the same.
> [ The installation of the symlink 'evolution' can be turned on by
> setting the configure option 'enable-default-binary' to yes. ] 
> 
> 
> Harish