Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!jmsellens
From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu
Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.bugs
Subject: kludge request for xhier and the mfcf "package"
Message-ID: <16116@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 25 Aug 89 04:32:57 GMT
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From: "John M. Sellens" <jmsellens>

Since the mfcf "package" is doomed, and we are trying to move stuff out
of it, but there are still things that refer to it in its
/usr/mfcf/ incarnation, we end up with lots of duplicates and xhier
complaints.

Shoud xh-make-links treat the mfcf "package" specially and ignore
conflicts with it and another package, and just make the link to
the other correct package instead??  e.g. see this from grand
(trimmed down a lot)

| xh-make-links: conflicts between packages occured, no new links made
| xh-make-links: conflicts are as follows:
|   mfcf/bin/ci
|   rcs/bin/ci
|   accounts/maintenance/add_all
|   mfcf/maintenance/add_all
|   accounts/servers/findall
|   mfcf/servers/findall
|   font/servers/fontd
|   mfcf/servers/fontd
|   mfcf/servers/texfontd
|   tex/servers/texfontd


Software maintenance FROM HELL!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)