On 10/3/18 4:45 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I noticed a fair number of new Linux users have trouble with stale
> program caches. Users install a package from a package manager or
> sources and then are confused when the new package is not used. They
> do not realize they need to run 'bash -r'; and most don't know where
> to begin searching.
OK, let's consider this. There are three cases:
1. A new program gets installed with the same name as an existing one,
in the same directory.
2. A new program gets installed with the same name, but in a different
directory in $PATH (and before the existing one).
3. A new program gets installed with a new name.
(I'm putting aside the program deletion case.)
You're saying that the seond scenario is most common, and common enough
that we should develop a complex solution for it? I'd have to see more
data before I'd accept that.
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``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
