Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 155993
'gv' gone from the search path breaks existing scripts and expectations
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:04 EST
The elimination of 'gv' from the search path breaks prior expectation. This patch adds the needed courtesy link to avoid breaking expectation and the principle of 'least surprise'. Dunno if thre is a 'new and improved 'gv' on the horizon, but ggv is clearly not is, from a performance and feature standpoint. If this is the plan, gsview and ggv integration with 'alternatives' is needed. [herrold@centos-4 SPECS]$ diff gsview-old.spec gsview.spec 6c6 < Release: 10 --- > Release: 11orc 66a67 > ln -s %{_bindir}/gsview $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}/gv 96a98,101 > * Tue Apr 26 2005 R P Herrold <info#owlriver.com> 4.6-11orc > - remove silent Epoch in changelog versioning, > add 'conform to expectation' gv link > [herrold@centos-4 SPECS]$ Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I seriously doubt this patch would ever be accepted (and I have personal reservations about gsview falsely masquerading as gv). It would be more appropriate to raised the issue on the fedora-devel mailing list.