[Radiance-dev] Re: Radiance in Debian

[Randolph Fritz]

On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:32 AM, Lars O. Grobe wrote:

>
> Now, I really do not see any disadvantage of renaming genbox,  
> putting it into /usr/bin, and having an option (not default) to set  
> a compatibility link. It would result in a cleaner setup for new  
> users (which are the ones I expect to use the package most). For  
> those who have !genbox in their scenes, it won't be a problem to  
> press "Y" - they are usually experienced users anyway, able to edit  
> their PATH as needed, maybe still prefering to compile from source  
> (so not affected at all). So I do not see a real scenario where  
> this clean-up would cause a problem.

Because unless the campatability link is installed, a large number of  
existing scenes won't render, and none of the docs will tell you  
why.  Can you imagine something more frustrating to a new user?

Randolph