Rob Browning wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I understand your hesitation, but that leaves cruft under > > /usr/share/emacs/19.34 if that version has already been purged > > and will never be installed again. > > IMO, this is probably just historical cruft we have to deal with, > unless as you say, we're going to add a dpkg --status, or whatever to > check for the old versions. I know in the "old days" you weren't > supposed to invoke dpkg recursively. Is that no longer true? > > I suppose, if dpkg is a no-no, we could always use some other test, > say checking for /usr/bin/emacs19 or similar...
I like that. Faster too. Peter
