On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > I don't really see what's so "middle ground" about it; it needs much more > significant changes to maintainer scripts [0], creates a compatability > problem, and doesn't really seem to buy anyone anything over the simpler > solution.
Nonsense. > echo "Setting up emacsen-common to cope with emacs20." >&2 > /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install emacs20 >/dev/null 2>&1 vs: if [ x`which dpkg-log` != x ]; then DL_PIPE=dpkg-log --priority=low --pipe DL_LOW=dpkg-log --priority=low DL_HIGH=dpkg-log --priority=high [..] else DL_PIPE=cat DL_LOW=echo [..] fi [..] $DL_LOW "Setting up emacsen-common to cope with emacs20." /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install emacs20 2>&1 | $DL_PIPE $DL_HIGH "The world is going to end!" The top is totally boiler plate and can be written once and just included by the people who use it. Other than the stuff at the top the changes are equal to the vicious hack of using FD 2 and supressing any the messages. Jason
