Re: lynx-dev lynx.cfg

[T.E.Dickey]

> Amazingly enough T.E.Dickey said: 
> > > Actually, I would prefer share/lynx, but I'm not sure how that fits into  
> > > the Grand Scheme Of Things (tm).  
> > for one file only - probably not a lot (except that the help-files also 
> > are platform-independent). 
>  
> As a reformed sysadmin, I can say I would much prefer having everything in 
> share.  Lynx.cfg has always given me indigestion; so I've always gone 
> through a bit of effort to try to make the variety of machines share the 
> same config and help files. 
>  
> While I can see how we could end up in the same trap as ncurses did (it 
> ending up being one of our biggest questions), perhaps a little tweaking in 
> the makefile to look for versions in the old location before doing a make 
> install would help alleviate the problem? 
Perhaps - but the same problem applies as in ncurses.  I couldn't simply
_move_ the terminfo tree because there's some systems where NFS lies to me
about the equivalence between the old/new locations.  And I couldn't simply
delete the old tree because it may have been customized, e.g,. in this case
lynx.cfg is the problem.  (But we can get closer with a little work...)
  
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